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title: But soft-hearted Susan replied, ‘Please don’t do so; he’s surely not… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But soft-hearted Susan replied, ‘Please don’t do so; he’s surely not so useless as all that.’ Who acts: hearted Susan. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 15

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But soft-hearted Susan replied, ‘Please don’t do so; he’s surely not so useless as all that.’

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**Who acts:** hearted Susan · **What happens:** reply, not do

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearted Susan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:53:15
# text = But soft-hearted Susan replied, ‘Please don’t do so; he’s surely not so useless as all that.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Susan	Susan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Please	please	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | hearted Susan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **do** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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