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title: She was, besides, one of those unfortunate people who invariably fan… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was, besides, one of those unfortunate people who invariably fancy that the possessions of other people must be better than their own. Who acts: wife, unfortunate people, possessions. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 51

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She was, besides, one of those unfortunate people who invariably fancy that the possessions of other people must be better than their own.

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**Who acts:** wife, unfortunate people, possessions · **What happens:** be, fancy, possess · **To what, where:** one, other people

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, unfortunate people, possessions), 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:pg3454:19:51
# text = She was, besides, one of those unfortunate people who invariably fancy that the possessions of other people must be better than their own.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	fancy	fancy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	advcl	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | wife | one |  |  |  | of that unfortunate people | tree rules |
| 2 | **fancy** | present | that unfortunate people |  |  |  |  | invariably *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | must | the possessions of other people |  |  |  |  | than possessions's own; good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **possess** |  |  | other people |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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