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title: These folks affirm that they are very well assured of this, and the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: These folks affirm that they are very well assured of this, and the more as having drunk and eaten often at the fagot-maker’s house. Who acts: folks. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 132

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These folks affirm that they are very well assured of this, and the more as having drunk and eaten often at the fagot-maker’s house.

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**Who acts:** folks · **What happens:** affirm, assure, have, eat · **To what, where:** folks

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folks), 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:pg503:33:132
# text = These folks affirm that they are very well assured of this, and the more as having drunk and eaten often at the fagot-maker’s house.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	affirm	affirm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	assured	assure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	fagot	fagot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affirm** | present | this folks |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **assure** | present · passive |  | folks *= folk* |  |  |  | of this; well *property* | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of this=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | this folks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | drunk *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | participle | this folks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «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 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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