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title: 'I fear they are too costly for me,' she said carelessly; 'and besid… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I fear they are too costly for me,' she said carelessly; 'and besides, I have hardly need of any more jewels just now.' Who acts: I, ladies, princess. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 54

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'I fear they are too costly for me,' she said carelessly; 'and besides, I have hardly need of any more jewels just now.'

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**Who acts:** I, ladies, princess · **What happens:** fear, be, say, have, need · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ladies, princess), 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:pg3027:14:54
# text = 'I fear they are too costly for me,' she said carelessly; 'and besides, I have hardly need of any more jewels just now.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  |  | for me; costly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | princess |  |  |  |  | carelessly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **need** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  | now | of any more jewels; hardly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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