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title: He wished he might stay were he was for ever, he was so comfortable… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He wished he might stay were he was for ever, he was so comfortable and happy, away from everyone, with nobody to bite him and tell him how ugly he was. Who acts: rest, nobody. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 32

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He wished he might stay were he was for ever, he was so comfortable and happy, away from everyone, with nobody to bite him and tell him how ugly he was.

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**Who acts:** rest, nobody · **What happens:** wish, stay, be, bite, tell · **To what, where:** rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, nobody), 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:pg3027:9:32
# text = He wished he might stay were he was for ever, he was so comfortable and happy, away from everyone, with nobody to bite him and tell him how ugly he was.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	nsubj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
32	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	ccomp	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | rest |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | might | rest |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | rest |  |  |  |  | ever *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | rest |  |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **bite** | to-infinitive | nobody | rest |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | nobody *not said here* |  | rest |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 8 | **is** | past | rest |  |  |  |  | ugly *property* | tree rules |

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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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