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title: 'Good-evening, friend! are you deaf?' but the figure never replied. — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Good-evening, friend! are you deaf?' but the figure never replied. Who acts: you, figure. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 82

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'Good-evening, friend! are you deaf?' but the figure never replied.

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**Who acts:** you, figure · **What happens:** be, not reply

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, figure), 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:pg3027:11:82
# text = 'Good-evening, friend! are you deaf?' but the figure never replied.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  | evening | deaf *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the figure |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «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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