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title: This proposal quite satisfied the others, and they all separated as… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This proposal quite satisfied the others, and they all separated as they had agreed. Who acts: proposal, others. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 10

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This proposal quite satisfied the others, and they all separated as they had agreed.

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**Who acts:** proposal, others · **What happens:** satisfy, separate, agree · **To what, where:** others

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proposal, others), 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:pg7277:26:10
# text = This proposal quite satisfied the others, and they all separated as they had agreed.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **satisfy** | past | this proposal | the others |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus other=Experiencer |
| 2 | **separate** | participle · passive |  | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · perfect | others *= other* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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