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title: “I am not surprised at her choosing to dress herself in white satin… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am not surprised at her choosing to dress herself in white satin without a thought of me. Who acts: king, dream. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 25

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“I am not surprised at her choosing to dress herself in white satin without a thought of me.

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**Who acts:** king, dream · **What happens:** not be, choose, dress, think · **To what, where:** dream, white satin, me

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (king, dream), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg503:2340`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:30:25
# text = “I am not surprised at her choosing to dress herself in white satin without a thought of me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | king |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** *in a quote* | gerund | dream |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dress** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | dream *not said here* | dream |  | white satin |  | without a thought of me | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 4 | **think** *in a quote* |  |  | me |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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