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title: 'We are tired and hungry, and would fain have shelter for the night,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'We are tired and hungry, and would fain have shelter for the night,' answered the eldest brother. Who acts: We. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 50

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'We are tired and hungry, and would fain have shelter for the night,' answered the eldest brother.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** be, fain, have, answer · **To what, where:** shelter, eldest brother

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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:pg3027:16:50
# text = 'We are tired and hungry, and would fain have shelter for the night,' answered the eldest brother.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	fain	fain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
12	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
18	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | We |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fain** | would | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | infinitive | We *not said here* | shelter |  |  | night |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Patient |
| 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the eldest brother |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality |

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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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