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title: They ceased not to extol and envy the happiness of their friend, who… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They ceased not to extol and envy the happiness of their friend, who in the meantime in no way diverted herself in looking upon all these rich things, because of the impatience she had to go and open the closet on the ground floor. Who acts: neighbors, happiness, manner, impatience. A sentence of «T
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 19

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They ceased not to extol and envy the happiness of their friend, who in the meantime in no way diverted herself in looking upon all these rich things, because of the impatience she had to go and open the closet on the ground floor.

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**Who acts:** neighbors, happiness, manner, impatience · **What happens:** cease, not extol, envy, divert, look, have · **To what, where:** happiness, manner, meantime, impatience, closet, ground floor

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbors, happiness, manner, impatience), 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:pg503:40:19
# text = They ceased not to extol and envy the happiness of their friend, who in the meantime in no way diverted herself in looking upon all these rich things, because of the impatience she had to go and open the closet on the ground floor.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	extol	extol	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	envy	envy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	diverted	divert	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
27	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	34	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	impatience	impatience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	closet	closet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | past | neighbors *= neighbor* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **extol** | to-infinitive | neighbors *= neighbor* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **envy** | infinitive | neighbors *= neighbor* *not said here* | the happiness of neighbors's friend |  |  |  | because the impatience | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer happiness=Stimulus |
| 4 | **divert** | past | the happiness of neighbors's friend | manner |  | the meantime in no way |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer |
| 5 | **look** | gerund | the happiness of neighbors's friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon all rich things | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon thing=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past | manner | the impatience *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** | to-infinitive | the impatience *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **open** | infinitive | the impatience *not said here* | the closet |  | the ground floor |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent closet=Theme on floor=Location |

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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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