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title: But how strange of him, when I should have loved him so much, and we… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But how strange of him, when I should have loved him so much, and we should have been so happy together!’ Who acts: I, we. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 205

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But how strange of him, when I should have loved him so much, and we should have been so happy together!’

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**Who acts:** I, we · **What happens:** love, be · **To what, where:** Frisk

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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:pg540:11:205
# text = But how strange of him, when I should have loved him so much, and we should have been so happy together!’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | should · perfect | I | Frisk |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | should · perfect | we |  |  |  |  | happy, together *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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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