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title: Everybody in the town who knew him made great fun of the idea of Man… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Everybody in the town who knew him made great fun of the idea of Mannikin’s undertaking such an expedition, and it even came to the ears of the foolish King and Queen, who laughed over it more than any of the others, without having an idea that the presumptuous Mannikin was their only son! Who acts:
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 52

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Everybody in the town who knew him made great fun of the idea of Mannikin’s undertaking such an expedition, and it even came to the ears of the foolish King and Queen, who laughed over it more than any of the others, without having an idea that the presumptuous Mannikin was their only son!

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**Who acts:** town, Everybody, idea, expedition, foolish King, presumptuous Mannikin · **What happens:** know, make, undertake, come, laugh, have · **To what, where:** Prince, great fun, expedition, ears, idea, only son

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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 (town, Everybody, idea, expedition), 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:pg7277:14:52
# text = Everybody in the town who knew him made great fun of the idea of Mannikin’s undertaking such an expedition, and it even came to the ears of the foolish King and Queen, who laughed over it more than any of the others, without having an idea that the presumptuous Mannikin was their only son!
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	undertaking	undertake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
38	over	over	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
40	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
41	than	than	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
48	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
49	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	presumptuous	presumptuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
56	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
57	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the town | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | past | Everybody | great fun of Mannikin's idea |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product |
| 3 | **undertake** | gerund | Mannikin's idea *not said here* | such expedition |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedition=Eventuality |
| 4 | **come** | past | expedition |  |  | the ears of the foolish King and Queen |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **laugh** | past | the foolish King and Queen |  |  | expedition |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** | gerund | expedition *not said here* | a idea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 7 | **is a** | past | the presumptuous Mannikin | others's only son |  |  |  |  | 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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