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title: 'Leave off!' shouted the hero, 'for I am Makoma, and would like to e… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Leave off!' shouted the hero, 'for I am Makoma, and would like to exchange a blow with thee!' Who acts: you, I. 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 79

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'Leave off!' shouted the hero, 'for I am Makoma, and would like to exchange a blow with thee!'

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** leave off, shout, be, like, exchange · **To what, where:** hero, blow

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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 (you, I), 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:pg3027:1:79
# text = 'Leave off!' shouted the hero, 'for I am Makoma, and would like to exchange a blow with thee!'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	like	like	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	exchange	exchange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave off** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | you *not said here* | the hero |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | for Makoma | tree rules |
| 4 | **like** | would | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **exchange** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a blow |  |  |  | with thee | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent blow=Theme with thou=Co-Agent |

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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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