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title: Therefore he said he would himself write an opera that should be abs… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore he said he would himself write an opera that should be absolutely a novelty and something worth hearing. Who acts: world, opera. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 64

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Therefore he said he would himself write an opera that should be absolutely a novelty and something worth hearing.

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**Who acts:** world, opera · **What happens:** say, write, be · **To what, where:** opera, novelty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, opera), 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:pg7277:11:64
# text = Therefore he said he would himself write an opera that should be absolutely a novelty and something worth hearing.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	nsubj	_	_
7	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	opera	opera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
13	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	novelty	novelty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	conj	_	_
18	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | world |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **write** | would | world | a opera |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opera=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | should | a opera | a novelty |  |  |  | absolutely *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 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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