--- title: So she thought the best thing she could do was to bring him up with… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So she thought the best thing she could do was to bring him up with a horror of women; and, to her great delight, she saw this dislike only increased as he grew older. Who acts: she, best thing, this, he. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she, best thing, this, he), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:16:2 # text = So she thought the best thing she could do was to bring him up with a horror of women; and, to her great delight, she saw this dislike only increased as he grew older. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj:outer _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 horror horror NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 31 dislike dislike VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 increased increase VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 advcl _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 37 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | she | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **do** | could | she | the best thing *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | past | the best thing | | | | | with a horror of women; bring *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | past | she | | | | | to her great delight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **dislike** | present | this | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **increase** | participle | this *not said here* | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **grow** | past | he | | | | | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **delight** | | her *= she* | | | | | | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/3/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/)