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title: After seeking me everywhere he believed that I must have been drowne… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After seeking me everywhere he believed that I must have been drowned, or eaten up by wild beasts in the forest. Who acts: husband. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 72

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After seeking me everywhere he believed that I must have been drowned, or eaten up by wild beasts in the forest.

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**Who acts:** husband · **What happens:** seek, believe, drown, eat up · **To what, where:** me, I · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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:pg503:22:72
# text = After seeking me everywhere he believed that I must have been drowned, or eaten up by wild beasts in the forest.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:agent	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	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 | **seek** | gerund | husband *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **believe** | past | husband |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **drown** | must · perfect · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **eat up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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