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title: The youngest of them was called Dullhead, and was sneered and jeered… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The youngest of them was called Dullhead, and was sneered and jeered at and snubbed on every possible opportunity. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 2

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The youngest of them was called Dullhead, and was sneered and jeered at and snubbed on every possible opportunity.

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**What happens:** call, sneer, jeer, snub · **To what, where:** youngest, possible opportunity · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg540:48:2
# text = The youngest of them was called Dullhead, and was sneered and jeered at and snubbed on every possible opportunity.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	Dullhead	Dullhead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	sneered	sneer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	jeered	jeer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	snubbed	snub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
19	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · passive |  | the youngest of sons |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **sneer** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V» |
| 3 | **jeer** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **snub** | participle |  |  |  | every possible opportunity |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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