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title: 'But I was thinking of you all the time,' said he at the end, 'and w… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'But I was thinking of you all the time,' said he at the end, 'and wishing that I could bring you back something you would like. Who acts: I, man, you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 69

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'But I was thinking of you all the time,' said he at the end, 'and wishing that I could bring you back something you would like.

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**Who acts:** I, man, you · **What happens:** think, say, wish, bring back, like · **To what, where:** end, something, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man, you), 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:pg3027:14:69
# text = 'But I was thinking of you all the time,' said he at the end, 'and wishing that I could bring you back something you would like.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | I |  |  |  | time | of you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  | at the end |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **wish** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **bring back** | could | I | something | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination something=Theme |
| 5 | **like** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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