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title: Now, as I think of retiring into the country, it seems to me that a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, as I think of retiring into the country, it seems to me that a pretty, lively, faithful little dog would be very good company for me; so, without any regard for your ages, I promise that the one who brings me the most beautiful little dog shall succeed me at once.” Who acts: I, it, faithful lit
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 6

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Now, as I think of retiring into the country, it seems to me that a pretty, lively, faithful little dog would be very good company for me; so, without any regard for your ages, I promise that the one who brings me the most beautiful little dog shall succeed me at once.”

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**Who acts:** I, it, faithful little dog, one · **What happens:** think, retire, seem, be, promise, bring · **To what, where:** country, me, pretty good company, beautiful little dog · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, it, faithful little dog, one), 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:pg503:23:6
# text = Now, as I think of retiring into the country, it seems to me that a pretty, lively, faithful little dog would be very good company for me; so, without any regard for your ages, I promise that the one who brings me the most beautiful little dog shall succeed me at once.”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	retiring	retire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
18	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	without	without	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
47	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
48	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
49	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
51	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	52	advmod	_	_
52	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
53	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
55	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	ccomp	_	_
57	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	at	at	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **retire** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | the country |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seem** | present | it |  | me |  | now |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | would | faithful little dog | a pretty good company |  |  |  | for me | tree rules |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **bring** | present | the one | the beautiful little dog | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination dog=Theme |
| 7 | **succeed** | shall | the one | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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