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title: Far from admiring its beauty, Saphir shook it impatiently off; but i… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Far from admiring its beauty, Saphir shook it impatiently off; but it was no good, for quick as lightning the frog jumped back again. Who acts: Saphir, FROG. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 65

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Far from admiring its beauty, Saphir shook it impatiently off; but it was no good, for quick as lightning the frog jumped back again.

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**Who acts:** Saphir, FROG · **What happens:** admire, shake, be, jump back · **To what, where:** beauty, FROG

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saphir, FROG), 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:pg640:11:65
# text = Far from admiring its beauty, Saphir shook it impatiently off; but it was no good, for quick as lightning the frog jumped back again.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	admiring	admire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	off	off	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admire** | gerund | Saphir *not said here* | FROG's beauty |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shake** | past | Saphir | FROG |  |  |  | far, off *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | FROG |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | FROG *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **jump back** | past | the frog |  |  |  | again | as lightning | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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