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title: The man thanked Jimmu, and said that few people would have been as h… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The man thanked Jimmu, and said that few people would have been as honest as he. Who acts: man, few people. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 27

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The man thanked Jimmu, and said that few people would have been as honest as he.

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**Who acts:** man, few people · **What happens:** thank, say, be · **To what, where:** Jimmu · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, few people), 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:pg2435:39:27
# text = The man thanked Jimmu, and said that few people would have been as honest as he.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Jimmu	Jimmu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the man |  | Jimmu |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jimmu=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | would · perfect | few people |  |  |  |  | as Jimmu; honest *property* | tree rules |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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