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title: Charming was thinking sadly of having to go back unsuccessful when h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Charming was thinking sadly of having to go back unsuccessful when he heard someone calling: “Charming, Charming!” Who acts: Charming, Frisk. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 95

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Charming was thinking sadly of having to go back unsuccessful when he heard someone calling: “Charming, Charming!”

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**Who acts:** Charming, Frisk · **What happens:** think, have, go back, hear, call · **To what, where:** Charming, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charming, Frisk), 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:pg503:28:95
# text = Charming was thinking sadly of having to go back unsuccessful when he heard someone calling: “Charming, Charming!”
1	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	unsuccessful	unsuccessful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	obj	_	_
15	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Charming | Charming |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | Charming *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sadly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go back** | to-infinitive | Charming *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unsuccessful *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **hear** | past | Frisk | someone |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus |
| 5 | **call** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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