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title: In this volume there are stories from the natives of Rhodesia, colle… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In this volume there are stories from the natives of Rhodesia, collected by Mr. Fairbridge, who speaks the native language, and one is brought by Mr. Cripps from another part of Africa, Uganda. Who acts: stories, Fairbridge, Cripps. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 29

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In this volume there are stories from the natives of Rhodesia, collected by Mr. Fairbridge, who speaks the native language, and one is brought by Mr. Cripps from another part of Africa, Uganda.

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**Who acts:** stories, Fairbridge, Cripps · **What happens:** be, collect, speak, bring · **To what, where:** volume, natives, native language, one, part · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories, Fairbridge, Cripps), 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:pg3027:1:29
# text = In this volume there are stories from the natives of Rhodesia, collected by Mr. Fairbridge, who speaks the native language, and one is brought by Mr. Cripps from another part of Africa, Uganda.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Rhodesia	Rhodesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Fairbridge	Fairbridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:desc	_	_
30	Cripps	Cripps	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Uganda	Uganda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | stories |  |  | this volume; there |  | from the natives of Rhodesia | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in volume=Location |
| 2 | **collect** | participle |  | the natives of Rhodesia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Fairbridge  Mr. | the native language |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | present · passive | Cripps  Mr. | one |  | another part of Africa and Uganda |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from part=Initial\_Location |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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