--- title: However, he thought it best not to make a fuss, so he opened the sat… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: However, he thought it best not to make a fuss, so he opened the satchel, and could scarcely believe his own eyes, for, instead of the hard crust, he saw two beautiful fresh rolls and some cold meat. Who acts: Simpleton. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24), with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Flying Ship(24)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/) / 24 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 24 However, he thought it best not to make a fuss, so he opened the satchel, and could scarcely believe his own eyes, for, instead of the hard crust, he saw two beautiful fresh rolls and some cold meat. **Who acts:** Simpleton · **What happens:** think, not make, open, believe, see · **To what, where:** satchel, fuss, own eyes, two beautiful fresh rolls · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simpleton), 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:pg640:35:24 # text = However, he thought it best not to make a fuss, so he opened the satchel, and could scarcely believe his own eyes, for, instead of the hard crust, he saw two beautiful fresh rolls and some cold meat. 1 However however ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 9 advmod _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fuss fuss NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 satchel satchel NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 scarcely scarcely ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 33 case _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 29 fixed _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 crust crust NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 38 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 rolls roll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 44 det _ _ 43 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Simpleton | satchel | | | | however *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **make** | to-infinitive | | a fuss | | | | well *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product | | 3 | **open** | past | Simpleton | the satchel | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location satchel=Theme | | 4 | **believe** | could | Simpleton *not said here* | | Simpleton's own eyes | | | scarcely *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | | 5 | **see** | past | Simpleton | two beautiful fresh rolls and some cold meat | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer roll=Stimulus | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/25/) - ↑ back to [The Flying Ship(24)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/)