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title: The farm servants wondered at this order, and exclaimed: “But surely… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The farm servants wondered at this order, and exclaimed: “But surely, sir, that would be a pity?” Who acts: farm servants, that. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 52

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The farm servants wondered at this order, and exclaimed: “But surely, sir, that would be a pity?”

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**Who acts:** farm servants, that · **What happens:** wonder, exclaim, be · **To what, where:** order, sir, pity · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farm servants, 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:pg2435:6:52
# text = The farm servants wondered at this order, and exclaimed: “But surely, sir, that would be a pity?”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | the farm servants |  |  | this order |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the farm servants *not said here* | sir |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sir=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | would | that | a pity |  |  |  |  | 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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