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title: “Oh, how I should have liked to see him too!” said Cinderlad. — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, how I should have liked to see him too!” said Cinderlad. Who acts: Cinderlad. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 99

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“Oh, how I should have liked to see him too!” said Cinderlad.

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**Who acts:** Cinderlad · **What happens:** like, see, say · **To what, where:** knight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cinderlad), 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:pg503:3612`): 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:pg503:48:99
# text = “Oh, how I should have liked to see him too!” said Cinderlad.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** *in a quote* | should · perfect | Cinderlad |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **see** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Cinderlad *not said here* | knight |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Cinderlad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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