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title: The Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publish… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publishing another Fairy Book. Who acts: Editor, children. 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 8

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The Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publishing another Fairy Book.

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**Who acts:** Editor, children · **What happens:** think, forgive, publish · **To what, where:** Editor, Fairy Book · **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 (Editor, children), 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:pg640:2:8
# text = The Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publishing another Fairy Book.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Editor	Editor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	publishing	publish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | the Editor |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **forgive** | future | children | Editor |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **publish** | gerund | children *not said here* | another Fairy Book |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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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