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title: “I live here all alone in the wood, and it is very lonely without an… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “I live here all alone in the wood, and it is very lonely without anyone to talk to. Who acts: ROSAMOND, wood. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 65

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“I live here all alone in the wood, and it is very lonely without anyone to talk to.

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**Who acts:** ROSAMOND, wood · **What happens:** live, be, talk · **To what, where:** wood

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ROSAMOND, wood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:7:67
# text = “I live here all alone in the wood, and it is very lonely without anyone to talk to.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
16	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** *in a quote* | present | ROSAMOND |  |  | the wood; here |  | alone *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | wood |  |  |  |  | without anyone; lonely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **talk** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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