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title: Sylvain and Jocosa willingly undertook this service, and indeed felt… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sylvain and Jocosa willingly undertook this service, and indeed felt that it was but a very small thing in return for all that the fairy had given and promised to them. Who acts: Sylvain, service. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 18

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Sylvain and Jocosa willingly undertook this service, and indeed felt that it was but a very small thing in return for all that the fairy had given and promised to them.

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**Who acts:** Sylvain, service · **What happens:** undertake, feel, be, give, promise · **To what, where:** service, small thing, return, fairy, Sylvain

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvain, service), 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:pg7277:9:18
# text = Sylvain and Jocosa willingly undertook this service, and indeed felt that it was but a very small thing in return for all that the fairy had given and promised to them.
1	Sylvain	Sylvain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Jocosa	Jocosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	undertook	undertake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undertake** | past | Sylvain and Jocosa | this service |  |  |  | willingly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Sylvain and Jocosa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past | service | a small thing |  | return |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | the fairy |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | participle |  |  | Sylvain |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |

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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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