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title: Well,” said he, “I have wandered about a great deal in my time, and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Well,” said he, “I have wandered about a great deal in my time, and in all kinds of places, but I have never blown so far as that. Who acts: Wind, I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 93

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Well,” said he, “I have wandered about a great deal in my time, and in all kinds of places, but I have never blown so far as that.

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**Who acts:** Wind, I · **What happens:** say, wander, not blow · **To what, where:** kinds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wind, I), 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:pg503:4:93
# text = Well,” said he, “I have wandered about a great deal in my time, and in all kinds of places, but I have never blown so far as that.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	wandered	wander	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wander** | present · perfect | I |  |  | all kinds of places |  | about a great deal in my time | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about deal=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **blow** | present · perfect | I | all kinds of places *not said here* |  |  |  | far *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent kind=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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