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title: How beautiful it must be to sit under that tree with the student, bu… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: How beautiful it must be to sit under that tree with the student, but that he could not do; he had to content himself with the key-hole and be happy there! Who acts: light. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 78

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How beautiful it must be to sit under that tree with the student, but that he could not do; he had to content himself with the key-hole and be happy there!

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**Who acts:** light · **What happens:** be, sit, not do, have, content · **To what, where:** tree, light

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light), 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:pg5615:2:78
# text = How beautiful it must be to sit under that tree with the student, but that he could not do; he had to content himself with the key-hole and be happy there!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
5	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	content	content	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
34	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | that tree with the student |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
| 3 | **not** **do** | could | light |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | light |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **content** | to-infinitive | light *not said here* | light |  |  |  | with the key hole | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | infinitive | light *not said here* |  |  | there |  | happy *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 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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