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title: “Nothing could console me more in my old age than to realize your wi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Nothing could console me more in my old age than to realize your willingness to gratify my wishes. Who acts: my. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 33

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“Nothing could console me more in my old age than to realize your willingness to gratify my wishes.

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**Who acts:** my · **What happens:** realize, gratify, wish · **To what, where:** willingness, wishes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my), 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:pg503:24:33
# text = “Nothing could console me more in my old age than to realize your willingness to gratify my wishes.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	compound	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	console	console	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	realize	realize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	willingness	willingness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	gratify	gratify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	csubj	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **realize** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | your willingness |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer willingness=Stimulus |
| 2 | **gratify** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | my wishes |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wish=Experiencer |
| 3 | **wish** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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