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title: Indeed, nothing more could have been thought of, either for Sylvain… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, nothing more could have been thought of, either for Sylvain and Jocosa or for their flocks; and their delight satisfied even the Fairy who had planned it all to please them. Who acts: delight, Sylvain. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, with its dependen
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 35

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Indeed, nothing more could have been thought of, either for Sylvain and Jocosa or for their flocks; and their delight satisfied even the Fairy who had planned it all to please them.

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**Who acts:** delight, Sylvain · **What happens:** think of, satisfy, plan, please, delight · **To what, where:** nothing, 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 (delight, 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:pg7277:9:35
# text = Indeed, nothing more could have been thought of, either for Sylvain and Jocosa or for their flocks; and their delight satisfied even the Fairy who had planned it all to please them.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc:preconj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Sylvain	Sylvain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Jocosa	Jocosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think of** *speech: other* | could · perfect · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **satisfy** | past | Sylvain's delight | the Fairy |  |  |  | brook *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fairy=Experiencer |
| 3 | **plan** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **please** | to-infinitive | Sylvain's delight *not said here* | Sylvain |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 5 | **delight** |  | Sylvain |  |  |  |  |  | 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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