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title: It could not think of happiness, it was sad at leaving its home, the… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It could not think of happiness, it was sad at leaving its home, the spot where it had sprung up; it knew, too, that it would never see again its dear old companions, or the little shrubs and flowers, perhaps not even the birds. Who acts: axe. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 53

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It could not think of happiness, it was sad at leaving its home, the spot where it had sprung up; it knew, too, that it would never see again its dear old companions, or the little shrubs and flowers, perhaps not even the birds.

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**Who acts:** axe · **What happens:** not think, be, leave, spring up, know, not see · **To what, where:** home, axe, dear old companions

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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 (axe), 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:pg5615:11:53
# text = It could not think of happiness, it was sad at leaving its home, the spot where it had sprung up; it knew, too, that it would never see again its dear old companions, or the little shrubs and flowers, perhaps not even the birds.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
11	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	sprung	spring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
36	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
49	even	even	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | could | axe |  |  |  |  | of happiness | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | axe |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | axe *not said here* | axe's home |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 4 | **spring up** | past · perfect · passive |  | axe |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **know** | past | axe |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **not** **see** | would | axe | axe's dear old companions |  |  | again | the little shrubs and flowers and the birds *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer companion=Stimulus |

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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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