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title: Only think of your having returned to your long-forgotten country fr… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Only think of your having returned to your long-forgotten country friends, after you have lived for years in a palace!' Who acts: you, your. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 121

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Only think of your having returned to your long-forgotten country friends, after you have lived for years in a palace!'

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** think, have, return, forget, live · **To what, where:** palace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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:pg3027:32:121
# text = Only think of your having returned to your long-forgotten country friends, after you have lived for years in a palace!'
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	ccomp	_	_
6	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | your |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** | participle | your *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to your forgotten country friends *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to friend=Result |
| 4 | **forget** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | present · perfect | you |  |  | a palace | year |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |

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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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