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title: ‘Ah!’ said the woman, ‘it’s dreadful to have to live all one’s life… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Ah!’ said the woman, ‘it’s dreadful to have to live all one’s life in this hut that is so small and dirty; you ought to have wished for a cottage. Who acts: woman, it, hut, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, with its dependency tree an
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 16

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‘Ah!’ said the woman, ‘it’s dreadful to have to live all one’s life in this hut that is so small and dirty; you ought to have wished for a cottage.

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**Who acts:** woman, it, hut, you · **What happens:** say, be, have, live, wish · **To what, where:** life, hut · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, it, hut, you), 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:pg7277:54:16
# text = ‘Ah!’ said the woman, ‘it’s dreadful to have to live all one’s life in this hut that is so small and dirty; you ought to have wished for a cottage.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
32	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
35	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | dreadful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | to-infinitive |  | all one's life |  | this hut |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
| 5 | **is** | present | this hut |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | this hut *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **wish** | ought · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | for a cottage | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for cottage=Theme |

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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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