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title: 'We are hungry; give us some corn! give us some corn!' cried they; a… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'We are hungry; give us some corn! give us some corn!' cried they; and the girl answered: Who acts: We, girls, girl. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 72

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'We are hungry; give us some corn! give us some corn!' cried they; and the girl answered:

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**Who acts:** We, girls, girl · **What happens:** be, give, cry, answer · **To what, where:** corn, us

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, girls, girl), 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:pg3027:10:72
# text = 'We are hungry; give us some corn! give us some corn!' cried they; and the girl answered:
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
17	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | We |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive |  | some corn | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient corn=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive |  | some corn | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient corn=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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