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title: Just fancy my not recognising the beautiful Hyacinthia! — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Just fancy my not recognising the beautiful Hyacinthia! Who acts: you, my. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 109

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Just fancy my not recognising the beautiful Hyacinthia!

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**Who acts:** you, my · **What happens:** fancy, not recognise · **To what, where:** beautiful Hyacinthia

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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:pg7277:27:109
# text = Just fancy my not recognising the beautiful Hyacinthia!
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	recognising	recognise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Hyacinthia	Hyacinthia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **recognise** | gerund | my | the beautiful Hyacinthia |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hyacinthia=Stimulus |

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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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