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title: And all the time he was thinking to himself that never, during the h… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the time he was thinking to himself that never, during the hundreds of years he had lived, had he seen so charming a maiden. Who acts: gnome. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 34

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And all the time he was thinking to himself that never, during the hundreds of years he had lived, had he seen so charming a maiden.

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**Who acts:** gnome · **What happens:** think, live, not see · **To what, where:** gnome, years, charming maiden · **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 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnome), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3282:2757`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:31:34
# text = And all the time he was thinking to himself that never, during the hundreds of years he had lived, had he seen so charming a maiden.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	during	during	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	charming	charming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | gnome |  | gnome |  | time |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past · perfect | gnome | years *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme year=Location |
| 3 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | gnome | a charming maiden |  |  | during the hundreds of years |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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