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title: The Herd-boy was so pleased to think what pleasure he had given that… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Herd-boy was so pleased to think what pleasure he had given that the next night he placed another bag of gold beside the girl’s bed. Who acts: Herd boy, pleasure, BOY. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 92

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The Herd-boy was so pleased to think what pleasure he had given that the next night he placed another bag of gold beside the girl’s bed.

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**Who acts:** Herd boy, pleasure, BOY · **What happens:** be, think, give, place · **To what, where:** pleasure, BOY, bag, bed

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (Herd boy, pleasure, BOY), 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:pg640:15:92
# text = The Herd-boy was so pleased to think what pleasure he had given that the next night he placed another bag of gold beside the girl’s bed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	11	det	_	_
11	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Herd boy |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the Herd boy *not said here* | what pleasure |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pleasure=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past · perfect · passive | what pleasure *not said here* | BOY |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **place** | past | BOY | another bag of gold |  | the girl's bed | night |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme beside bed=Destination |

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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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