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title: Rosimond thus became the benefactor of all his family, and had the p… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Rosimond thus became the benefactor of all his family, and had the pleasure of doing good to those who had wished to do him evil. Who acts: Rosimond, pleasure. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 89

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Rosimond thus became the benefactor of all his family, and had the pleasure of doing good to those who had wished to do him evil.

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**Who acts:** Rosimond, pleasure · **What happens:** become, have, do, wish, evil · **To what, where:** benefactor, pleasure, good, Rosimond

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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, pleasure), 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:pg7277:19:89
# text = Rosimond thus became the benefactor of all his family, and had the pleasure of doing good to those who had wished to do him evil.
1	Rosimond	Rosimond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	evil	evil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Rosimond | the benefactor of Rosimond's family |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | Rosimond *not said here* | the pleasure |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | the pleasure *not said here* | good |  |  |  | to the pleasure | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
| 4 | **wish** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Rosimond |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **evil** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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