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title: Sylvain and Jocosa for their parts were far from sharing this enmity… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sylvain and Jocosa for their parts were far from sharing this enmity, and indeed were never happy when apart. Who acts: Sylvain. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 3

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Sylvain and Jocosa for their parts were far from sharing this enmity, and indeed were never happy when apart.

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**Who acts:** Sylvain · **What happens:** share, not be · **To what, where:** enmity

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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), 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:pg7277:9:3
# text = Sylvain and Jocosa for their parts were far from sharing this enmity, and indeed were never happy when apart.
1	Sylvain	Sylvain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Jocosa	Jocosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	enmity	enmity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | past · progressive | Sylvain for Sylvain's parts and Jocosa | this enmity |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | Sylvain for Sylvain's parts and Jocosa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | apart, happy, indeed *property* | tree rules |

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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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