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title: Thereupon he gave up the list in despair and hurried to greet those… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon he gave up the list in despair and hurried to greet those whom he had succeeded in asking, imploring their goodwill so humbly that most of them were touched, and promised that they would do his son no harm. Who acts: page, Fairies. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 7

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Thereupon he gave up the list in despair and hurried to greet those whom he had succeeded in asking, imploring their goodwill so humbly that most of them were touched, and promised that they would do his son no harm.

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**Who acts:** page, Fairies · **What happens:** give up, hurry, greet, succeed, ask, implore · **To what, where:** list, despair, those, goodwill, most, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (page, Fairies), 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:pg7277:14:7
# text = Thereupon he gave up the list in despair and hurried to greet those whom he had succeeded in asking, imploring their goodwill so humbly that most of them were touched, and promised that they would do his son no harm.
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	imploring	implore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	goodwill	goodwill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	humbly	humbly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	ccomp	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	42	det	_	_
42	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | past | page | the list |  | despair |  | thereupon *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Source |
| 2 | **hurry** | past | page *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | page *not said here* | those |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 4 | **succeed** | past · perfect | page |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | page *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **implore** | gerund | page *not said here* | Fairies's goodwill |  |  |  | humbly *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodwill=Recipient |
| 7 | **touch** | past · passive |  | most of Fairies |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
| 8 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | page *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **do** | would | Fairies *= fairy* | page's 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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