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title: Now, some people might not have liked the notion of being made happy… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, some people might not have liked the notion of being made happy by a serpent with the head of a woman, but the Kinglet had no such fears. Who acts: people, serpent, Kinglet. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 26

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Now, some people might not have liked the notion of being made happy by a serpent with the head of a woman, but the Kinglet had no such fears.

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**Who acts:** people, serpent, Kinglet · **What happens:** not like, make, have · **To what, where:** notion, such fears

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, serpent, Kinglet), 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:pg7277:22:26
# text = Now, some people might not have liked the notion of being made happy by a serpent with the head of a woman, but the Kinglet had no such fears.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	notion	notion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Kinglet	Kinglet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | might · perfect | some people | the notion |  |  | now |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot notion=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | gerund · passive | a serpent with the head of a woman | the notion *not said here* |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **have** | past | the Kinglet | no such fears |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=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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