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title: 'You dirty creatures,' cried she, 'get away at once, or I will throw… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'You dirty creatures,' cried she, 'get away at once, or I will throw stones at you! Who acts: You, I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 55

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'You dirty creatures,' cried she, 'get away at once, or I will throw stones at you!

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** dirty, cry, get away, throw · **To what, where:** creatures, stepmother, stones

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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 (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:pg3027:12:55
# text = 'You dirty creatures,' cried she, 'get away at once, or I will throw stones at you!
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dirty	dirty	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dirty** | present | You | creatures |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent creature=Patient |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | You *not said here* | stepmother |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 3 | **get away** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **throw** | future | I | stones |  |  |  | at you | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at you=Destination |

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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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