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title: And they heard it, and they were as pleased as if they had been into… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And they heard it, and they were as pleased as if they had been intoxicated with tea, after the Chinese fashion, and they all said ‘Oh!’ and held up their forefingers and nodded time. Who acts: people. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree an
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 123

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And they heard it, and they were as pleased as if they had been intoxicated with tea, after the Chinese fashion, and they all said ‘Oh!’ and held up their forefingers and nodded time.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** hear, be, intoxicate, say, hold up, nod · **To what, where:** permission, people, forefingers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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:pg640:48:123
# text = And they heard it, and they were as pleased as if they had been intoxicated with tea, after the Chinese fashion, and they all said ‘Oh!’ and held up their forefingers and nodded time.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	intoxicated	intoxicate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	forefingers	forefinger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
40	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | people | permission |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | people |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **intoxicate** | past · perfect · passive |  | people |  |  | after the Chinese fashion | with tea | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oh=Topic |
| 5 | **hold up** | past | people *not said here* | people's forefingers |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot forefinger=Theme |
| 6 | **nod** | past | people *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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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