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title: At this Sir Red was again possessed with anger and envy, and again h… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this Sir Red was again possessed with anger and envy, and again he went about and planned how to get the brothers into trouble. Who acts: Sir. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 103

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At this Sir Red was again possessed with anger and envy, and again he went about and planned how to get the brothers into trouble.

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**Who acts:** Sir · **What happens:** possess, go about, plan, get · **To what, where:** Red, brothers, trouble

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir), 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:pg5615:28:103
# text = At this Sir Red was again possessed with anger and envy, and again he went about and planned how to get the brothers into trouble.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	planned	plan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | past · passive |  |  |  | Red  Sir | again | with anger and envy | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP» |
| 2 | **go about** | past | Sir |  |  |  | again | about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **plan** | past | Sir *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Sir *not said here* | the brothers |  | trouble |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=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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