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title: Their greatest delight was to be together, and so that they might ge… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Their greatest delight was to be together, and so that they might get a good long talk, they went one evening for a walk in the wood. Who acts: greatest delight, birds. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 8

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Their greatest delight was to be together, and so that they might get a good long talk, they went one evening for a walk in the wood.

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**Who acts:** greatest delight, birds · **What happens:** be, get, go, delight · **To what, where:** good long talk

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greatest delight, birds), 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:pg7277:41:8
# text = Their greatest delight was to be together, and so that they might get a good long talk, they went one evening for a walk in the wood.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	14	mark	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | birds's greatest delight |  |  |  |  | together *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | might | birds *= bird* | a good long talk |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | past | birds *= bird* |  |  |  | evening | for a walk in the wood | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for walk=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **delight** |  | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «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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