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title: Then he offered Rosimond immense rewards for his services, which wer… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he offered Rosimond immense rewards for his services, which were refused, and the only favour the young man would accept was that one of his posts at Court should be conferred on his brother Bramintho. Who acts: Rosimond, young man, only favour. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew La
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 84

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Then he offered Rosimond immense rewards for his services, which were refused, and the only favour the young man would accept was that one of his posts at Court should be conferred on his brother Bramintho.

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**Who acts:** Rosimond, young man, only favour · **What happens:** offer, refuse, accept, be, confer, service · **To what, where:** immense rewards, Rosimond, services, only favour, one

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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 (Rosimond, young man, only favour), 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:pg7277:19:84
# text = Then he offered Rosimond immense rewards for his services, which were refused, and the only favour the young man would accept was that one of his posts at Court should be conferred on his brother Bramintho.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Rosimond	Rosimond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
5	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rewards	reward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	refused	refuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	conferred	confer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	Bramintho	Bramintho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past | Rosimond | immense rewards | Rosimond |  | then | for Rosimond's services | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent rosimond=Goal reward=Theme |
| 2 | **refuse** | past · passive |  | Rosimond's services |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **accept** | would | the young man | the only favour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the only favour | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **confer** | should · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of Rosimond's posts at Court; on Rosimond's brother | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: on brother=Topic |
| 6 | **service** |  | Rosimond |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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