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title: But the Priest repeated what he had said, and mocked the Governor fo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Priest repeated what he had said, and mocked the Governor for having allowed himself to be made such a fool of. Who acts: Priest. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 128

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But the Priest repeated what he had said, and mocked the Governor for having allowed himself to be made such a fool of.

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**Who acts:** Priest · **What happens:** repeat, say, mock, allow, make · **To what, where:** Governor, fool · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Priest), 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:pg540:9:128
# text = But the Priest repeated what he had said, and mocked the Governor for having allowed himself to be made such a fool of.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Priest	Priest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	mocked	mock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Governor	Governor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	aux	_	_
16	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	iobj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
21	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	23	det:predet	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | the Priest |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Priest |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mock** | past | the Priest *not said here* | the Governor |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent governor=Theme |
| 4 | **allow** | gerund · perfect | the Priest *not said here* |  | Governor |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer himself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | the Priest *not said here* | such fool |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |

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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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