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title: ‘Oh dear, oh dear! she must be wandering in her mind,’ murmured the… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh dear, oh dear! she must be wandering in her mind,’ murmured the lad to himself. Who acts: Hannah. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 116

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‘Oh dear, oh dear! she must be wandering in her mind,’ murmured the lad to himself.

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**Who acts:** Hannah · **What happens:** wonder, murmur, mind · **To what, where:** mind, lad, head

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hannah), 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:pg641:26:116
# text = ‘Oh dear, oh dear! she must be wandering in her mind,’ murmured the lad to himself.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
17	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | must · progressive | Hannah |  |  | Hannah's mind |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past |  | the lad | head |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lad=Topic to himself=Recipient |
| 3 | **mind** |  | Hannah |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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