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title: I stayed two months with my wife and family; but my eager desire to… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I stayed two months with my wife and family; but my eager desire to see foreign countries would suffer me to remain no longer. Who acts: I, eager desire, my. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 25

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I stayed two months with my wife and family; but my eager desire to see foreign countries would suffer me to remain no longer.

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**Who acts:** I, eager desire, my · **What happens:** stay, see, suffer, remain, desire · **To what, where:** foreign countries, me

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, eager desire, my), 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:pg503:47:25
# text = I stayed two months with my wife and family; but my eager desire to see foreign countries would suffer me to remain no longer.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	no	no	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | I |  |  |  | month | with my wife and family | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with wife=Location |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | my eager desire *not said here* | foreign countries |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus |
| 3 | **suffer** | would | my eager desire | me |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 4 | **remain** | to-infinitive | my eager desire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **desire** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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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