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title: All this time Souci had been wandering through the world with his pr… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All this time Souci had been wandering through the world with his precious thread carefully fastened round him, seeking every possible and impossible place where his beloved princess might chance to be. Who acts: precious thread, beloved princess. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 20

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All this time Souci had been wandering through the world with his precious thread carefully fastened round him, seeking every possible and impossible place where his beloved princess might chance to be.

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**Who acts:** precious thread, beloved princess · **What happens:** wonder, fasten, seek, chance · **To what, where:** world, possible place

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (precious thread, beloved princess), 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:pg5615:31:20
# text = All this time Souci had been wandering through the world with his precious thread carefully fastened round him, seeking every possible and impossible place where his beloved princess might chance to be.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	Souci	Souci	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux	_	_
7	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	round	round	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
22	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · perfect · progressive |  |  |  | the world | time | with Souci's precious thread | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fasten** | past | Souci's precious thread *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round Souci; carefully *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **seek** | gerund |  | every possible place |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **chance** | might | Souci's beloved princess |  |  |  |  |  | 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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