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title: ‘Oh, I was standing here because it has just occurred to me that I s… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, I was standing here because it has just occurred to me that I should like to stay in your service for another year. Who acts: I, your. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 180

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‘Oh, I was standing here because it has just occurred to me that I should like to stay in your service for another year.

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**Who acts:** I, your · **What happens:** stand, occur, like, stay, service · **To what, where:** ground, me, service

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg641:1172`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:13:180
# text = ‘Oh, I was standing here because it has just occurred to me that I should like to stay in your service for another year.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	expl	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	occurred	occur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	csubj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past · progressive | I |  |  | here |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **occur** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | ground | me |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **like** | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | your service | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in service=Location |
| 5 | **service** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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