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title: He told his father that Rosimond was in the habit of visiting a neig… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He told his father that Rosimond was in the habit of visiting a neighbour who was an enemy of the family, and betraying to him all that went on in the house, and was plotting with him to poison their father. Who acts: Bramintho, Rosimond, habit, neighbour. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by And
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 4

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He told his father that Rosimond was in the habit of visiting a neighbour who was an enemy of the family, and betraying to him all that went on in the house, and was plotting with him to poison their father.

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**Who acts:** Bramintho, Rosimond, habit, neighbour, that · **What happens:** tell, be, visit, betray, go on, plot · **To what, where:** father, habit, neighbour, enemy, Bramintho, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bramintho, Rosimond, habit, neighbour), 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:pg7277:19:4
# text = He told his father that Rosimond was in the habit of visiting a neighbour who was an enemy of the family, and betraying to him all that went on in the house, and was plotting with him to poison their father.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	Rosimond	Rosimond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	betraying	betray	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	plotting	plot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	poison	poison	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
42	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Bramintho |  | Bramintho's father |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Rosimond |  |  | the habit |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **visit** | gerund | the habit *not said here* | a neighbour and a enemy |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | a neighbour and a enemy | a enemy |  |  |  | of the family | tree rules |
| 5 | **betray** | gerund | that *not said here* |  | Bramintho |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go on** | past | that |  |  | the house |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 7 | **plot** | past · progressive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Bramintho | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
| 8 | **poison** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* | neighbour's father |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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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