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title: He repeated them joyfully, for he had always longed to bring the old… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He repeated them joyfully, for he had always longed to bring the old man back and to make his last days happy. Who acts: Rosimond. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 88

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He repeated them joyfully, for he had always longed to bring the old man back and to make his last days happy.

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**Who acts:** Rosimond · **What happens:** repeat, long, bring, make · **To what, where:** words, old man

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosimond), 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:pg7277:19:88
# text = He repeated them joyfully, for he had always longed to bring the old man back and to make his last days happy.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	longed	long	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | Rosimond | words *= word* |  |  |  | joyfully *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 2 | **long** | past · perfect | Rosimond |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Rosimond *not said here* |  | the old man |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | Rosimond *not said here* |  |  |  | day | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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