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title: They lived happily together, but, though he wished people to think o… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They lived happily together, but, though he wished people to think otherwise, he was fonder of the golden arm than of all his wife's gifts besides. Who acts: They, man, wife. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Golden Arm, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# English Fairy Tales, The Golden Arm, sentence 5

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They lived happily together, but, though he wished people to think otherwise, he was fonder of the golden arm than of all his wife's gifts besides.

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**Who acts:** They, man, wife · **What happens:** live, wish, think, be, beside, gift · **To what, where:** people

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Golden Arm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (They, man, wife), 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:pg7439:27:5
# text = They lived happily together, but, though he wished people to think otherwise, he was fonder of the golden arm than of all his wife's gifts besides.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	fonder	fond	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
30	besides	beside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	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 | **live** | past | They |  |  |  |  | happily, together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wish** | past | man | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | of the golden arm; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **beside** | present |  |  |  |  |  | than man's wife's gifts | tree rules |
| 6 | **gift** |  | man's wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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