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title: Their words rejoiced Ferko’s heart, and he waited impatiently till e… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Their words rejoiced Ferko’s heart, and he waited impatiently till evening should come and he could rub the precious dew on his sightless eyes. Who acts: words, Ferko, evening, eyes. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 33

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Their words rejoiced Ferko’s heart, and he waited impatiently till evening should come and he could rub the precious dew on his sightless eyes.

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**Who acts:** words, Ferko, evening, eyes · **What happens:** rejoice, wait, come, rub, word · **To what, where:** heart, precious dew, sightless eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, Ferko, evening, eyes), 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:pg640:14:33
# text = Their words rejoiced Ferko’s heart, and he waited impatiently till evening should come and he could rub the precious dew on his sightless eyes.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	rub	rub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sightless	sightless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | past | eyes's words | Ferko's heart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | past | Ferko |  |  |  |  | impatiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | should | evening |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rub** | could | Ferko | the precious dew |  | Ferko's sightless eyes |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dew=Theme on eye=Destination |
| 5 | **word** |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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