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title: Now at this very moment the younger brother was thinking of him, and… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now at this very moment the younger brother was thinking of him, and wondering how he had got on during all the years since they had parted. Who acts: younger brother, brother, limbs. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 54

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Now at this very moment the younger brother was thinking of him, and wondering how he had got on during all the years since they had parted.

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**Who acts:** younger brother, brother, limbs · **What happens:** think, wonder, get on, part · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger brother, brother, limbs), 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:pg5615:23:54
# text = Now at this very moment the younger brother was thinking of him, and wondering how he had got on during all the years since they had parted.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	during	during	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | the younger brother |  |  |  | now; moment | of man | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **get on** | past · perfect | brother |  |  |  | year |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **part** | past · perfect | limbs *= limb* |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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