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title: ‘By Jove! that’s a good idea!’ says comrade Wasp’s-nest. — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘By Jove! that’s a good idea!’ says comrade Wasp’s-nest. Who acts: that, good idea. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 39

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‘By Jove! that’s a good idea!’ says comrade Wasp’s-nest.

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**Who acts:** that, good idea · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** good idea, comrade · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, good idea), 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:pg540:31:39
# text = ‘By Jove! that’s a good idea!’ says comrade Wasp’s-nest.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Jove	Jove	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	Wasp’s	Wasp's	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that | a good idea |  |  |  | by Jove | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a good idea | comrade |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent comrade=Topic |

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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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