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title: 'O great men!' he said, while they all listened, 'which of you will… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'O great men!' he said, while they all listened, 'which of you will leap into the pool and overcome the crocodiles?' Who acts: great men, men, you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 43

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'O great men!' he said, while they all listened, 'which of you will leap into the pool and overcome the crocodiles?'

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**Who acts:** great men, men, you · **What happens:** say, listen, leap, overcome · **To what, where:** pool, crocodiles · **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 (great men, men, you), 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:pg3027:1:43
# text = 'O great men!' he said, while they all listened, 'which of you will leap into the pool and overcome the crocodiles?'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
13	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	leap	leap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | great men |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **listen** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leap** | future | you |  |  | the pool |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory |
| 4 | **overcome** | present | you *not said here* | the crocodiles |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot crocodile=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 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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