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title: “She disappeared as she finished speaking, and if I had not been too… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “She disappeared as she finished speaking, and if I had not been too unhappy to care about anything I should have been glad that she was gone. Who acts: lion, Miranda. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 42

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“She disappeared as she finished speaking, and if I had not been too unhappy to care about anything I should have been glad that she was gone.

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**Who acts:** lion, Miranda · **What happens:** disappear, finish, speak, not be, care, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (lion, Miranda), 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:pg503:31:42
# text = “She disappeared as she finished speaking, and if I had not been too unhappy to care about anything I should have been glad that she was gone.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obl	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
25	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** *in a quote* | past | lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **finish** *in a quote* | past | lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | Miranda |  |  |  |  | unhappy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **care** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Miranda *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about anything | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about anything=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | should · perfect | Miranda |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | past | lion |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | 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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