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title: If children are pleased, and they are so kind as to say that they ar… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If children are pleased, and they are so kind as to say that they are pleased, the Editor does not care very much for what other people may say. Who acts: children, Books, Editor, other people. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, with its dependency tree an
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 10

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If children are pleased, and they are so kind as to say that they are pleased, the Editor does not care very much for what other people may say.

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**Who acts:** children, Books, Editor, other people · **What happens:** be, say, not care · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, Books, Editor, other people), 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:pg640:2:10
# text = If children are pleased, and they are so kind as to say that they are pleased, the Editor does not care very much for what other people may say.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	csubj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	obj	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | children |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Books *= book* |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | Books *= book* |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **care** | present · do-support | the Editor |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | may | other people |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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