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title: Now, there is one gentleman who seems to think that it is not quite… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, there is one gentleman who seems to think that it is not quite right to print so many fairy tales, with pictures, and to publish them in red and blue covers. Who acts: one gentleman, it. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 11

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Now, there is one gentleman who seems to think that it is not quite right to print so many fairy tales, with pictures, and to publish them in red and blue covers.

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**Who acts:** one gentleman, it · **What happens:** be, seem, think, not be, print, publish · **To what, where:** many fairy tales, tales, red covers · **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 (one gentleman, it), 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:pg640:2:11
# text = Now, there is one gentleman who seems to think that it is not quite right to print so many fairy tales, with pictures, and to publish them in red and blue covers.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	print	print	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	csubj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	publish	publish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	covers	cover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | one gentleman |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | present | one gentleman |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | one gentleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **print** | to-infinitive |  | many fairy tales |  |  |  | with pictures | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 6 | **publish** | to-infinitive |  | tales *= tale* |  | red covers |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result |

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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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