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title: Shall I send for your ladies to bath the place?' asked the prince, p… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall I send for your ladies to bath the place?' asked the prince, pouring out these and a dozen other questions, to which the girl only shook her head. Who acts: I, girl. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 107

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Shall I send for your ladies to bath the place?' asked the prince, pouring out these and a dozen other questions, to which the girl only shook her head.

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**Who acts:** I, girl · **What happens:** send, ask, pour out, shake · **To what, where:** place, prince, dozen other questions, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg3027:12:107
# text = Shall I send for your ladies to bath the place?' asked the prince, pouring out these and a dozen other questions, to which the girl only shook her head.
1	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | shall | I | the place |  |  |  | for your ladies | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | the prince |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pour out** | gerund |  | dozen other questions |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Patient |
| 4 | **shake** | past | the girl | princess's head |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme to which=Trajectory |

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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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