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title: However, I noticed that one of my companions in misfortune was also… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, I noticed that one of my companions in misfortune was also very attentive to this little sprite, and I found out that he had been her lover, whom the cruel Ragotte had taken away from her long before; since then I have cared for, and thought of, nothing but how I might regain my freedom. Wh
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 47

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However, I noticed that one of my companions in misfortune was also very attentive to this little sprite, and I found out that he had been her lover, whom the cruel Ragotte had taken away from her long before; since then I have cared for, and thought of, nothing but how I might regain my freedom.

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**Who acts:** I, one, King · **What happens:** notice, be, find out, take away, care, think · **To what, where:** lover, cruel Ragotte, freedom · **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 (I, one, King), 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:pg503:31:47
# text = However, I noticed that one of my companions in misfortune was also very attentive to this little sprite, and I found out that he had been her lover, whom the cruel Ragotte had taken away from her long before; since then I have cared for, and thought of, nothing but how I might regain my freedom.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	attentive	attentive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sprite	sprite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Ragotte	Ragotte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
38	away	away	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	42	advmod	_	_
42	before	before	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	since	since	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	obl	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	cared	care	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	52	parataxis	_	_
56	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
57	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	60	advmod	_	_
58	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
59	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	regain	regain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	conj	_	_
61	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | I |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | one of my companions in misfortune |  |  |  |  | to this little sprite; attentive *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find out** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past · perfect | King | lion's lover |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take away** | past · perfect · passive |  | the cruel Ragotte |  |  |  | away, before *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **care** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **regain** | might | I | my freedom |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme |

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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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