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title: But really, what with anxiety about his riches and being weary of ev… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But really, what with anxiety about his riches and being weary of everything, and always desiring something he had not, he never knew a moment’s real happiness. Who acts: Badi. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 43

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But really, what with anxiety about his riches and being weary of everything, and always desiring something he had not, he never knew a moment’s real happiness.

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**Who acts:** Badi · **What happens:** be, desire, not have, not know · **To what, where:** something, real happiness

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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 (Badi), 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:pg7277:9:43
# text = But really, what with anxiety about his riches and being weary of everything, and always desiring something he had not, he never knew a moment’s real happiness.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
12	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	desiring	desire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of everything; weary *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **desire** | gerund |  | something |  |  |  | always *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **have** | past | Badi |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **know** | past | Badi | a moment's real happiness |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer happiness=Stimulus |

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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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