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title: Accordingly, to the delight of his teachers, he made the most rapid… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 91

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Accordingly, to the delight of his teachers, he made the most rapid progress in his education, constantly surpassing everyone’s expectations.

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**Who acts:** godmother, teachers, everyone · **What happens:** make, surpass, delight, educate, expect · **To what, where:** rapid progress, education, expectations

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (godmother, teachers, everyone), 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:pg640:19:91
# text = Accordingly, to the delight of his teachers, he made the most rapid progress in his education, constantly surpassing everyone’s expectations.
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	surpassing	surpass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	expectations	expectation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | godmother | the rapid progress |  | godmother's education |  | to the delight of godmother's teachers; accordingly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent progress=Product |
| 2 | **surpass** | gerund | godmother *not said here* | everyone's expectations |  |  |  | constantly *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot expectation=Theme |
| 3 | **delight** |  | godmother's teachers |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **educate** |  | godmother |  |  |  |  |  | nom education «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **expect** |  | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | nom expectation «cognition 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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