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title: Ah, of course he knew; why had he not thought of it at first and spa… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah, of course he knew; why had he not thought of it at first and spared himself all that fatigue? Who acts: Carrier. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 102

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Ah, of course he knew; why had he not thought of it at first and spared himself all that fatigue?

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**Who acts:** Carrier · **What happens:** know, have, not think, spare · **To what, where:** Carrier

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carrier), 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:pg3282:7:102
# text = Ah, of course he knew; why had he not thought of it at first and spared himself all that fatigue?
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
4	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	fixed	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	spared	spare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Carrier |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | past | Carrier *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | participle | Carrier |  |  |  |  | of course | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **spare** | past | Carrier *not said here* | Carrier |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient fatigue=Asset |

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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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