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title: Provoked by his words--for we all know that curiosity is as deeply i… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Provoked by his words--for we all know that curiosity is as deeply inborn in every woman as even the love of talking--Grannonia implored the fox to tell her what the birds had said. Who acts: curiosity, love, Grannonia, fox. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake, w
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 49

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Provoked by his words--for we all know that curiosity is as deeply inborn in every woman as even the love of talking--Grannonia implored the fox to tell her what the birds had said.

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**Who acts:** curiosity, love, Grannonia, fox · **What happens:** provoke, know, be, talk, implore, tell · **To what, where:** fox, Grannonia, birds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curiosity, love, Grannonia, fox), 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:pg7277:25:49
# text = Provoked by his words--for we all know that curiosity is as deeply inborn in every woman as even the love of talking--Grannonia implored the fox to tell her what the birds had said.
1	Provoked	provoke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	inborn	inborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Grannonia	Grannonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	implored	implore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	_
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	37	obj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provoke** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by fox's words | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **know** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | curiosity |  |  |  |  | in every woman; as the love; deeply, inborn *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **talk** | gerund | the love *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **implore** | past | Grannonia |  | the fox |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Grannonia *not said here* |  | Grannonia |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the birds |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner |
| 8 | **word** |  | fox |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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