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title: 'Well, you have a fine appetite, young man,' answered the witch; 'ho… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Well, you have a fine appetite, young man,' answered the witch; 'however, it is the last time you will ever eat it, so I will give you another bowlful.' Who acts: you, porridge, I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 61

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'Well, you have a fine appetite, young man,' answered the witch; 'however, it is the last time you will ever eat it, so I will give you another bowlful.'

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**Who acts:** you, porridge, I · **What happens:** have, answer, be, eat, give · **To what, where:** fine appetite, witch, last time, porridge, bowlful, you

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, porridge, 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:pg3027:17:61
# text = 'Well, you have a fine appetite, young man,' answered the witch; 'however, it is the last time you will ever eat it, so I will give you another bowlful.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
14	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	however	however	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	iobj	_	_
37	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
38	bowlful	bowlful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | you | a fine appetite and young man |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appetite=Patient |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the witch |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | present | porridge | the last time |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | future | you | porridge |  |  | ever |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **give** | future | I | another bowlful | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bowlful=Theme |

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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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