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title: Here he had appointed to meet the other forty-eight spaniels, who re… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 25

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Here he had appointed to meet the other forty-eight spaniels, who received him joyfully, and assured him that, happen what might, they would follow and serve him faithfully.

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**Who acts:** eye, other forty spaniels, spaniels · **What happens:** appoint, meet, receive, assure, happen, follow · **To what, where:** other forty spaniels, eye, that

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye, other forty spaniels, spaniels), 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:pg7277:17:25
# text = Here he had appointed to meet the other forty-eight spaniels, who received him joyfully, and assured him that, happen what might, they would follow and serve him faithfully.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
12	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	assured	assure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | past · perfect | eye |  |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | eye *not said here* | the other forty spaniels |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spaniel=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **receive** | past | the other forty spaniels | eye |  |  |  | joyfully *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **assure** | past |  | that | eye |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition he=Beneficiary that=Theme |
| 5 | **happen** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **follow** | would | spaniels *= spaniel* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **serve** | infinitive | spaniels *= spaniel* *not said here* | eye |  |  |  | faithfully *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |

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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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