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title: Both the squire and his wife thought this a splendid idea, and went… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Both the squire and his wife thought this a splendid idea, and went about rejoicing at the thought that now they would get rid of Hans. Who acts: squire, men. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 22

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Both the squire and his wife thought this a splendid idea, and went about rejoicing at the thought that now they would get rid of Hans.

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**Who acts:** squire, men · **What happens:** think, go, rejoice, get · **To what, where:** this, thought

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squire, men), 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:pg5615:13:22
# text = Both the squire and his wife thought this a splendid idea, and went about rejoicing at the thought that now they would get rid of Hans.
1	Both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc:preconj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the squire and squire's wife | this |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | the squire and squire's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rejoice** | gerund | the squire and squire's wife *not said here* |  |  | the thought |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **get** | would | men *= man* | the thought |  |  | now | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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