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title: However, in spite of this he was exceedingly active and well formed,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, in spite of this he was exceedingly active and well formed, and altogether so handsome and agreeable that the smallness of his stature was of no real consequence. Who acts: Prince, smallness. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1, with its dependency tree
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 33

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However, in spite of this he was exceedingly active and well formed, and altogether so handsome and agreeable that the smallness of his stature was of no real consequence.

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**Who acts:** Prince, smallness · **What happens:** be, form, spite · **To what, where:** spite, this

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, smallness), 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:pg7277:14:33
# text = However, in spite of this he was exceedingly active and well formed, and altogether so handsome and agreeable that the smallness of his stature was of no real consequence.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	smallness	smallness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
30	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Prince |  |  | spite of this |  | active, exceedingly, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | participle | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** |  | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | altogether *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the smallness of Prince's stature |  |  |  |  | of no real consequence | tree rules |
| 6 | **spite** |  |  | this |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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