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title: ‘At last I’ve got a proper sort of companion,’ said the Musician, ‘f… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘At last I’ve got a proper sort of companion,’ said the Musician, ‘for it was a human being I wanted all along, and not a wild animal.’ Who acts: I, last, sort. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 63

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‘At last I’ve got a proper sort of companion,’ said the Musician, ‘for it was a human being I wanted all along, and not a wild animal.’

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**Who acts:** I, last, sort · **What happens:** have, get, say, be, sort · **To what, where:** proper sort, Musician, companion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, last, sort), 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:pg540:50:63
# text = ‘At last I’ve got a proper sort of companion,’ said the Musician, ‘for it was a human being I wanted all along, and not a wild animal.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’ve	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Musician	musician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	_
24	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	along	along	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past | last | a proper sort of companion |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the Musician |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent musician=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | sort |  |  |  |  | human *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | gerund | I |  |  |  |  | along, want *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | companion |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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