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title: They said that they did not see any harm in it, and they were ready… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They said that they did not see any harm in it, and they were ready to ‘put themselves on their country,’ and be tried by a jury of children. Who acts: Fancy, jury. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 15

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They said that they did not see any harm in it, and they were ready to ‘put themselves on their country,’ and be tried by a jury of children.

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**Who acts:** Fancy, jury · **What happens:** say, not see, be, put, try · **To what, where:** harm, Fancy, country · **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 (Fancy, jury), 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:pg640:2:15
# text = They said that they did not see any harm in it, and they were ready to ‘put themselves on their country,’ and be tried by a jury of children.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	jury	jury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fancy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | Fancy | any harm |  | harm |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | Fancy |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | to-infinitive | Fancy *not said here* | Fancy |  | Fancy's country |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on country=Destination |
| 5 | **try** | infinitive · passive | a jury of children |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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