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title: We loved each other so tenderly, and our tastes and interests were s… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: We loved each other so tenderly, and our tastes and interests were so much alike that we determined never to marry, but to spend our entire lives together. Who acts: We, tastes, our. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 51

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We loved each other so tenderly, and our tastes and interests were so much alike that we determined never to marry, but to spend our entire lives together.

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**Who acts:** We, tastes, our · **What happens:** love, determine, not be, spend, taste · **To what, where:** each, entire lives

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, tastes, our), 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:pg7277:45:51
# text = We loved each other so tenderly, and our tastes and interests were so much alike that we determined never to marry, but to spend our entire lives together.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	2	obj	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	fixed	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	tastes	taste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	interests	interest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
16	alike	alike	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
27	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	together	together	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | We | each |  |  |  | tenderly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
| 2 | **determine** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | our tastes and interests |  |  |  |  | marry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **spend** | to-infinitive | our tastes and interests *not said here* | our entire lives |  |  |  | together *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset |
| 5 | **taste** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=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 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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