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title: Doubtless this lovely mortal is pining for company. — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Doubtless this lovely mortal is pining for company. Who acts: Doubtless. 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 38

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Doubtless this lovely mortal is pining for company.

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**Who acts:** Doubtless · **What happens:** pine

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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 (Doubtless), 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:pg3282:31:38
# text = Doubtless this lovely mortal is pining for company.
1	Doubtless	Doubtless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mortal	mortal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	pining	pine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pine** | present · progressive | Doubtless |  |  |  |  | for company | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for company=Theme |

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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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