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title: You may imagine their joy and delight when they realised that their… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You may imagine their joy and delight when they realised that their weary struggle was ended, and their utter contentment as they clasped each other by the hand. Who acts: You, Sylvain, weary struggle. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, with its dependency tree 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 30

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You may imagine their joy and delight when they realised that their weary struggle was ended, and their utter contentment as they clasped each other by the hand.

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**Who acts:** You, Sylvain, weary struggle · **What happens:** imagine, realise, be, clasp, joy, struggle · **To what, where:** joy, each · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You, Sylvain, weary struggle), 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:pg7277:9:30
# text = You may imagine their joy and delight when they realised that their weary struggle was ended, and their utter contentment as they clasped each other by the hand.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	realised	realise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	ended	ended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	contentment	contentment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	clasped	clasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	24	obj	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	fixed	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | may | You | Sylvain's joy and delight |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot joy=Theme |
| 2 | **realise** | past | Sylvain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Sylvain's weary struggle |  |  |  |  | ended *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **clasp** | past | Sylvain | each |  |  |  | by the hand | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |
| 5 | **joy** |  | Sylvain |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **struggle** |  | Sylvain |  |  |  |  |  | nom struggle «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **content** |  | Sylvain |  |  |  |  |  | nom contentment «feeling 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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