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title: His joy was great when he saw that they were all well, for the young… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His joy was great when he saw that they were all well, for the youngest did her best not to appear sad. Who acts: joy, King, thoughts, youngest. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 52

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His joy was great when he saw that they were all well, for the youngest did her best not to appear sad.

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**Who acts:** joy, King, thoughts, youngest, best · **What happens:** be, see, do, not appear, joy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, King, thoughts, youngest), 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:pg540:12:52
# text = His joy was great when he saw that they were all well, for the youngest did her best not to appear sad.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
19	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	nsubj	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
23	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | King's joy |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | thoughts *= thought* |  |  |  |  | all, well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | past | youngest |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **appear** | to-infinitive | best |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **joy** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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