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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 90

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Then she raised her voice, and began to talk quickly of the prices of the chains and necklaces, and after some bargaining, to deceive the attendants, she declared that she liked one string of pearls better than all the rest, and that the ogre might take away the other things, which were not half as valuable as he supposed.

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**Who acts:** princess, some, ogre, other things · **What happens:** raise, begin, talk, bargain, deceive, declare · **To what, where:** voice, attendants, one string, other things

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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 (princess, some, ogre, other things), 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:pg3027:14:90
# text = Then she raised her voice, and began to talk quickly of the prices of the chains and necklaces, and after some bargaining, to deceive the attendants, she declared that she liked one string of pearls better than all the rest, and that the ogre might take away the other things, which were not half as valuable as he supposed.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	necklaces	necklace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
22	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
24	bargaining	bargain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
40	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	xcomp	_	_
41	than	than	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	44	det:predet	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
52	away	away	ADP	RP	_	51	compound:prt	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
57	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	62	nsubj	_	_
58	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
59	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	60	advmod	_	_
60	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	62	advmod	_	_
61	as	as	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
62	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	acl:relcl	_	_
63	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
64	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
65	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past | princess | princess's voice |  |  | then |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **talk** | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the prices of the chains and necklaces; quickly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bargain** | gerund | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **deceive** | to-infinitive | some *not said here* | the attendants |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Patient |
| 6 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **like** | past | princess | one string of pearls |  |  |  | good *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot string=Theme |
| 8 | **take away** | might | the ogre | the other things |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | past | the other things |  |  |  |  | half, valuable *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **suppose** | past | ogre |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: 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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