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title: Only I wish it were not so terribly dark and lonely here; not even a… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Only I wish it were not so terribly dark and lonely here; not even a little hare! Who acts: I, ground. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 116

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Only I wish it were not so terribly dark and lonely here; not even a little hare!

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**Who acts:** I, ground · **What happens:** wish, not be, be · **To what, where:** little hare

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ground), 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:pg5615:11:116
# text = Only I wish it were not so terribly dark and lonely here; not even a little hare!
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | present | I | a little hare |  | here |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | ground |  |  |  |  | dark, terribly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | ground *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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