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title: He was less fond of adventures than men of rank usually were in thos… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was less fond of adventures than men of rank usually were in those days, and was not famous for strength or feats of arms. Who acts: Ring. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 4

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He was less fond of adventures than men of rank usually were in those days, and was not famous for strength or feats of arms.

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**Who acts:** Ring · **What happens:** be, not be

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ring), 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:pg640:42:4
# text = He was less fond of adventures than men of rank usually were in those days, and was not famous for strength or feats of arms.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	feats	feat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ring |  |  |  |  | of adventures than men of rank and that days; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Ring *not said here* |  |  |  | in that days | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | Ring *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for strength or feats of arms; famous *property* | tree rules |

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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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