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title: Then Mr. Ogre could come in and peer and sniff about as he liked, bu… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Mr. Ogre could come in and peer and sniff about as he liked, but no chance to fill his market-basket could he find. Who acts: Mr. Ogre, child, chance. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers, with its
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 38

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Then Mr. Ogre could come in and peer and sniff about as he liked, but no chance to fill his market-basket could he find.

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**Who acts:** Mr. Ogre, child, chance · **What happens:** come in, sniff, like, fill, find · **To what, where:** market basket

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This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr. Ogre, child, chance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:32:38
# text = Then Mr. Ogre could come in and peer and sniff about as he liked, but no chance to fill his market-basket could he find.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	peer	peer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sniff	sniff	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | could | Mr. Ogre |  |  |  |  | peer *conj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sniff** | present | Mr. Ogre *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **like** | past | child |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **fill** | to-infinitive | no chance *not said here* | child's market basket |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent basket=Patient |
| 5 | **find** | could | no chance |  |  |  |  | child *nsubj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: 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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (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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