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title: ‘I believe that big boar would be of more use here than I am,’ he th… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I believe that big boar would be of more use here than I am,’ he thought, and lo! at the wish the wild boar came and began to push hard against the wall. Who acts: I, big boar, boar, wild boar. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tre
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 90

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‘I believe that big boar would be of more use here than I am,’ he thought, and lo! at the wish the wild boar came and began to push hard against the wall.

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**Who acts:** I, big boar, boar, wild boar · **What happens:** believe, be, use, think, come, begin · **To what, where:** wish

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, big boar, boar, wild boar), 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:pg5615:22:90
# text = ‘I believe that big boar would be of more use here than I am,’ he thought, and lo! at the wish the wild boar came and began to push hard against the wall.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
22	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
36	against	against	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | would | big boar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | present | big boar |  |  | here |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | boar |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come** | past | the wild boar |  |  | the wish |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at wish=Location |
| 6 | **begin** | past | the wild boar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **push** | to-infinitive | the wild boar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against the wall; hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against wall=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 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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