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title: This demand seemed so easy and agreeable and the reward was so great… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This demand seemed so easy and agreeable and the reward was so great, that the Princes lost no time in setting forth on their travels. Who acts: demand, reward, Princes, time. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 13

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This demand seemed so easy and agreeable and the reward was so great, that the Princes lost no time in setting forth on their travels.

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**Who acts:** demand, reward, Princes, time · **What happens:** seem, be, lose, set, travel

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demand, reward, Princes, time), 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:pg7277:30:13
# text = This demand seemed so easy and agreeable and the reward was so great, that the Princes lost no time in setting forth on their travels.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Princes	Prince	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
23	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | this demand |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the reward |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | past | the Princes |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **set** | gerund | no time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **travel** | present | no time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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