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title: At first she showed her interest by leaving in their favourite haunt… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At first she showed her interest by leaving in their favourite haunts many little gifts such as they delighted to offer one to the other, for they loved each other so much that their first thought was always, ‘What will Jocosa like?’ or, ‘What will please Sylvain?’ Who acts: Fairy, Sylvain, first th
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 6

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At first she showed her interest by leaving in their favourite haunts many little gifts such as they delighted to offer one to the other, for they loved each other so much that their first thought was always, ‘What will Jocosa like?’ or, ‘What will please Sylvain?’

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**Who acts:** Fairy, Sylvain, first thought · **What happens:** show, leave, delight, offer, love, be · **To what, where:** interest, favourite haunts, one, other, each, 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 (Fairy, Sylvain, first thought), 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:pg7277:9:6
# text = At first she showed her interest by leaving in their favourite haunts many little gifts such as they delighted to offer one to the other, for they loved each other so much that their first thought was always, ‘What will Jocosa like?’ or, ‘What will please Sylvain?’
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	haunts	haunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	delighted	delight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	29	obj	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	fixed	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	37	amod	_	_
37	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	44	nsubj	_	_
43	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	Jocosa	Jocosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
45	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
48	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
50	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	53	obj	_	_
52	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
54	Sylvain	Sylvain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | Fairy | Fairy's interest |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent interest=Recipient |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | Fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in Sylvain's favourite haunts *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in haunt=Result |
| 3 | **delight** | past | Sylvain |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **offer** | to-infinitive | Sylvain *not said here* | one |  |  |  | to the other *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent one=Theme to other=Goal |
| 5 | **love** | past | Sylvain | each |  |  |  | Jocosa *obl* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** | past | Sylvain's first thought |  |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **please** | future | Fairy *not said here* | Sylvain |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer sylvain=Result |
| 8 | **interest** |  | Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **think** |  | Sylvain |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition 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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