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title: The man, who was a peaceable quiet sort of fellow, made no objection… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The man, who was a peaceable quiet sort of fellow, made no objections, but simply said: Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 12

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The man, who was a peaceable quiet sort of fellow, made no objections, but simply said:

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, make, say · **To what, where:** peaceable quiet sort, objections · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg540:14:12
# text = The man, who was a peaceable quiet sort of fellow, made no objections, but simply said:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	peaceable	peaceable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	objections	objection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the man | a peaceable quiet sort |  |  |  | of fellow | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | the man | no objections |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Product |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 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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