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title: “You are the luckiest man that ever was born,” said the ogress as sh… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You are the luckiest man that ever was born,” said the ogress as she went out of the cave as usual. Who acts: You, ogress. 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 75

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“You are the luckiest man that ever was born,” said the ogress as she went out of the cave as usual.

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**Who acts:** You, ogress · **What happens:** be, bear, say, go out · **To what, where:** luckiest man, cave · **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), 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:pg2435:22:75
# text = “You are the luckiest man that ever was born,” said the ogress as she went out of the cave as usual.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	luckiest	lucky	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ogress	ogress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | the luckiest man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the luckiest man |  |  | ever |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the ogress |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go out** | past | ogress | the cave |  |  |  | as usual | tree rules |

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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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