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title: This remarkable taste of the fair Parsley soon became known, and the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This remarkable taste of the fair Parsley soon became known, and the theft was discovered. Who acts: remarkable taste. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 57

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This remarkable taste of the fair Parsley soon became known, and the theft was discovered.

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**Who acts:** remarkable taste · **What happens:** become, know, discover, taste · **To what, where:** theft, fair Parsley

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remarkable taste), 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:pg7277:29:57
# text = This remarkable taste of the fair Parsley soon became known, and the theft was discovered.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Parsley	Parsley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | this remarkable taste of the fair Parsley |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | participle | this remarkable taste of the fair Parsley *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **discover** | past · passive |  | the theft |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **taste** |  |  | the fair Parsley |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=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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