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title: 'You are cleverer than I expected,' answered she; 'or else someone h… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'You are cleverer than I expected,' answered she; 'or else someone helped you who is skilled in magic.' Who acts: You, I, someone. 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 88

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'You are cleverer than I expected,' answered she; 'or else someone helped you who is skilled in magic.'

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**Who acts:** You, I, someone · **What happens:** be, expect, answer, help, skill · **To what, where:** woman, you, magic

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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 (You, I, someone), 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:pg3027:10:88
# text = 'You are cleverer than I expected,' answered she; 'or else someone helped you who is skilled in magic.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	cleverer	clever	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	else	else	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
17	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	skilled	skill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | You |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **expect** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | You *not said here* |  | woman |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
| 4 | **help** | past | someone |  | you |  |  | else *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **skill** | present · passive |  |  |  | magic |  |  | 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 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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