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title: He is named Mr. G. Laurence Gomme, and he is president of a learned… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He is named Mr. G. Laurence Gomme, and he is president of a learned body called the Folk Lore Society. Who acts: gentleman. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 12

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He is named Mr. G. Laurence Gomme, and he is president of a learned body called the Folk Lore Society.

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**Who acts:** gentleman · **What happens:** name, be, learn, call · **To what, where:** gentleman, president, learned body · **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 (gentleman), 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:pg640:2:12
# text = He is named Mr. G. Laurence Gomme, and he is president of a learned body called the Folk Lore Society.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	G.	G.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
6	Laurence	Laurence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	Gomme	Gomme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | present · passive |  | gentleman |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | gentleman | president |  |  |  | of a learned body | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | a learned body *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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