--- title: Fancy, then, the dismay of Mr. Jacobs, and of the Editor, when they… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Fancy, then, the dismay of Mr. Jacobs, and of the Editor, when they heard their president say that he did not think it very nice in them to publish fairy books, above all, red, green, and blue fairy books! Who acts: Fancy, president. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fancy, president), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:2:14 # text = Fancy, then, the dismay of Mr. Jacobs, and of the Editor, when they heard their president say that he did not think it very nice in them to publish fairy books, above all, red, green, and blue fairy books! 1 Fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 dismay dismay NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:desc _ _ 9 Jacobs Jacobs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Editor Editor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 ccomp _ _ 30 in in SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 publish publish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 34 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 above above ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 46 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | Fancy | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Fancy's president | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | president | dismay | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 4 | **publish** | to-infinitive | Fancy | fairy books | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **dismay** | | | Jacobs Mr. | | | | | nom dismay «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/2/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/2/15/) - ↑ back to [Joan, Toddles, and Tiny](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/2/)