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title: Indeed, it was his chief delight to create a storm, in order to add… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, it was his chief delight to create a storm, in order to add to the list of his prisoners. Who acts: captive. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 28

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Indeed, it was his chief delight to create a storm, in order to add to the list of his prisoners.

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**Who acts:** captive · **What happens:** be, create, add, list · **To what, where:** chief delight, storm, prisoners

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captive), 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:pg640:17:28
# text = Indeed, it was his chief delight to create a storm, in order to add to the list of his prisoners.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	create	create	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
14	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	fixed	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | captive | Prince's chief delight |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **create** | to-infinitive |  | a storm |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Result |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the list of Prince's prisoners | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to list=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **list** |  |  | Prince's prisoners |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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