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title: “Sire,” she answered, “having heard of your victories I thought that… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Sire,” she answered, “having heard of your victories I thought that green would signify my joy and the hope of your speedy return.” Who acts: meaning, green, my, speedy return. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 10

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“Sire,” she answered, “having heard of your victories I thought that green would signify my joy and the hope of your speedy return.”

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**Who acts:** meaning, green, my, speedy return, your · **What happens:** answer, hear, think, signify, joy, hope · **To what, where:** Sire, joy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meaning, green, my, speedy return), 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:pg503:30:10
# text = “Sire,” she answered, “having heard of your victories I thought that green would signify my joy and the hope of your speedy return.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	victories	victory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	signify	signify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	speedy	speedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | meaning | Sire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** *in a quote* | gerund · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of your victories | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of victory=Stimulus |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | meaning |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **signify** *in a quote* | would | that green | my joy and the hope of your speedy return |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot joy=Theme |
| 5 | **joy** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **hope** *in a quote* |  | your speedy return |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **return** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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