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title: ‘If I were but at home again, or if home were but here!’ said Halvor… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If I were but at home again, or if home were but here!’ said Halvor, and no sooner had he wished this than it was granted. Who acts: I, home, Halvor. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 77

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‘If I were but at home again, or if home were but here!’ said Halvor, and no sooner had he wished this than it was granted.

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**Who acts:** I, home, Halvor · **What happens:** be, say, have, wish, grant · **To what, where:** home, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, home, Halvor), 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:pg540:6:77
# text = ‘If I were but at home again, or if home were but here!’ said Halvor, and no sooner had he wished this than it was granted.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
27	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	obj	_	_
28	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I |  |  | home |  | again *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | home |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Halvor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | Halvor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wish** | past | Halvor | this |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme |
| 6 | **grant** | past · passive |  | home |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |

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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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