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title: All was lonely, empty, sorrowful; and the forsaken gnome resolved th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All was lonely, empty, sorrowful; and the forsaken gnome resolved that he would have no more dealings with such false creatures as he had found men to be. Who acts: All, forsaken gnome, gnome. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tre
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 61

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All was lonely, empty, sorrowful; and the forsaken gnome resolved that he would have no more dealings with such false creatures as he had found men to be.

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**Who acts:** All, forsaken gnome, gnome · **What happens:** be, forsake, resolve, have, find · **To what, where:** more dealings, men

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (All, forsaken gnome, gnome), 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:pg3282:32:61
# text = All was lonely, empty, sorrowful; and the forsaken gnome resolved that he would have no more dealings with such false creatures as he had found men to be.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	gnome	gnome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
18	no	no	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	dealings	dealing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
29	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | All |  |  |  |  | lonely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | All *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | All *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **forsake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **resolve** | past | the forsaken gnome |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | would | gnome | more dealings |  |  |  | with such false creatures | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dealing=Patient |
| 7 | **find** | past · perfect | gnome | men |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |

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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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