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title: She is quite aware of all this herself, so you may imagine how unhap… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She is quite aware of all this herself, so you may imagine how unhappy she is, and how earnestly she begs for your aid.’ Who acts: Sylvia, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 18

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She is quite aware of all this herself, so you may imagine how unhappy she is, and how earnestly she begs for your aid.’

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**Who acts:** Sylvia, you · **What happens:** be, imagine, beg

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvia, you), 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:pg7277:10:18
# text = She is quite aware of all this herself, so you may imagine how unhappy she is, and how earnestly she begs for your aid.’
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
8	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	begs	beg	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Sylvia |  |  |  |  | of Sylvia; aware *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **imagine** | may | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **is** | present | Sylvia |  |  |  |  | unhappy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | Sylvia |  |  |  |  | for your aid; earnestly *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for aid=Topic |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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