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title: ‘To think that when we supposed her to be so miserable, she was all… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘To think that when we supposed her to be so miserable, she was all the while as happy as possible with that false King. Who acts: we, Queen. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 13

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‘To think that when we supposed her to be so miserable, she was all the while as happy as possible with that false King.

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**Who acts:** we, Queen · **What happens:** think, suppose, be · **To what, where:** Queen, while · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Queen), 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:pg7277:4:13
# text = ‘To think that when we supposed her to be so miserable, she was all the while as happy as possible with that false King.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
25	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **suppose** | past | we | Queen |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | miserable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Queen | all while |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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