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title: Indeed, I had nearly decided that I would ask a similar gift.’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, I had nearly decided that I would ask a similar gift.’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 34

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Indeed, I had nearly decided that I would ask a similar gift.’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** decide, ask · **To what, where:** similar gift

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg7277:10:34
# text = Indeed, I had nearly decided that I would ask a similar gift.’
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	decided	decide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | indeed, nearly *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | would | I | a similar gift |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gift=Recipient |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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