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title: But she thought to herself, ‘This will be quite impossible, and I sh… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But she thought to herself, ‘This will be quite impossible, and I shall not have to marry someone I do not care for.’ Who acts: Princess, This, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 14

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But she thought to herself, ‘This will be quite impossible, and I shall not have to marry someone I do not care for.’

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**Who acts:** Princess, This, I · **What happens:** think, be, not have, marry, not care · **To what, where:** Princess, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, This, 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:pg7277:42:14
# text = But she thought to herself, ‘This will be quite impossible, and I shall not have to marry someone I do not care for.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Princess |  | Princess |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | future | This |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **have** | shall | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **marry** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | someone |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **care** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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