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title: “You did not sort those feathers alone,” answered the ogress calmly;… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You did not sort those feathers alone,” answered the ogress calmly; “however, this time I will let that pass.” Who acts: You, ogress, young man, that. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 55

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“You did not sort those feathers alone,” answered the ogress calmly; “however, this time I will let that pass.”

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**Who acts:** You, ogress, young man, that · **What happens:** not sort, answer, let, pass · **To what, where:** feathers, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, ogress, young man, that), 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:pg2435:22:55
# text = “You did not sort those feathers alone,” answered the ogress calmly; “however, this time I will let that pass.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	sort	sort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ogress	ogress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	however	however	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obj	_	_
25	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sort** *in a quote* | past · do-support | You | that feathers |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the ogress |  |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | future | the young man *= man* | that |  |  | time | however *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** *in a quote* | infinitive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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