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title: The rogues were more amazed than ever; they forgot their anger, and… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The rogues were more amazed than ever; they forgot their anger, and buying the pipe for two hundred gold pieces, they went joyfully home. Who acts: friends. 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 88

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The rogues were more amazed than ever; they forgot their anger, and buying the pipe for two hundred gold pieces, they went joyfully home.

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**Who acts:** friends · **What happens:** forget, buy, go, anger · **To what, where:** anger, pipe

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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 (friends), 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:pg7277:26:88
# text = The rogues were more amazed than ever; they forgot their anger, and buying the pipe for two hundred gold pieces, they went joyfully home.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rogues	rogue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	_
20	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	home	home	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | friends *= friend* | friends's anger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** | gerund |  | the pipe |  |  |  | for hundred gold pieces | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme for piece=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **go** | past | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  | home, joyfully *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **anger** |  | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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