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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 79

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Bruno had gone out into the forest, never thinking that Felicia would search in his room for the pinks, and she was delighted by his unexpected absence, and thought to get them back without further trouble.

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**Who acts:** Bruno, Felicia · **What happens:** go out, not think, search, be, think, get back · **To what, where:** forest, room, pinks · **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 (Bruno, Felicia), 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:pg503:22:79
# text = Bruno had gone out into the forest, never thinking that Felicia would search in his room for the pinks, and she was delighted by his unexpected absence, and thought to get them back without further trouble.
1	Bruno	Bruno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pinks	pink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	back	back	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	without	without	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past · perfect | Bruno |  |  | the forest |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Bruno *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **search** | would | Felicia |  |  | Bruno's room |  | for the pinks | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location for pink=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | Felicia |  |  |  |  | by Bruno's unexpected absence; delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | participle | Bruno *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **get back** | to-infinitive | Bruno *not said here* | pinks *= pink* |  |  |  | without further trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 7 | **absent** |  | Bruno |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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