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title: I have plenty of jewels, it is true, but nothing remarkable enough t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I have plenty of jewels, it is true, but nothing remarkable enough to catch Turritella’s fancy.’ Who acts: I, plenty, Turritella. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 23

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I have plenty of jewels, it is true, but nothing remarkable enough to catch Turritella’s fancy.’

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**Who acts:** I, plenty, Turritella · **What happens:** have, be, catch, fancy · **To what, where:** plenty, fancy

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (I, plenty, Turritella), 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:pg7277:5:23
# text = I have plenty of jewels, it is true, but nothing remarkable enough to catch Turritella’s fancy.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	conj	_	_
13	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | plenty of jewels |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | plenty |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | plenty *not said here* | Turritella's fancy |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme |
| 4 | **fancy** |  | Turritella |  |  |  |  |  | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: 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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