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title: “I do wish I had not taken that last spoonful of broth; I am sure so… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I do wish I had not taken that last spoonful of broth; I am sure something was wrong with it.” Who acts: giant, something. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 40

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“I do wish I had not taken that last spoonful of broth; I am sure something was wrong with it.”

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**Who acts:** giant, something · **What happens:** do, not take, be · **To what, where:** wish, last spoonful · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, something), 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:pg3282:28:40
# text = “I do wish I had not taken that last spoonful of broth; I am sure something was wrong with it.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	spoonful	spoonful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	broth	broth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
18	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present | giant | wish |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **take** *in a quote* | past · perfect | giant | that last spoonful of broth |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoonful=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | giant |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | something |  |  |  |  | with broth; wrong *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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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