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title: Mr. Ford did the pictures, and it is hoped that children will find t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Ford did the pictures, and it is hoped that children will find the book not less pleasing than those which have already been submitted to their consideration. Who acts: Ford, children, Books. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, with its dependency tree 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 40

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Mr. Ford did the pictures, and it is hoped that children will find the book not less pleasing than those which have already been submitted to their consideration.

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**Who acts:** Ford, children, Books · **What happens:** do, hope, find, please, submit, consider · **To what, where:** pictures, Ethnology, book, consideration

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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 (Ford, children, Books), 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:pg640:2:40
# text = Mr. Ford did the pictures, and it is hoped that children will find the book not less pleasing than those which have already been submitted to their consideration.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Ford	Ford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	hoped	hope	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	pleasing	please	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	obl	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	already	already	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	submitted	submit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	consideration	consideration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Ford  Mr. | the pictures |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hope** | present · passive |  | Ethnology |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | future | children | the book |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |
| 4 | **please** | gerund | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than those; less *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **submit** | present · perfect · passive |  |  | Books's consideration |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to consideration=Recipient |
| 6 | **consider** |  | Books *= book* |  |  |  |  |  | nom consideration «cognition transitive»: poss=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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