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title: 'Oh, is it you?' asked the little creature; 'how strange that we sho… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Oh, is it you?' asked the little creature; 'how strange that we should meet so far from home!' Who acts: rustle, you, we. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 101

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'Oh, is it you?' asked the little creature; 'how strange that we should meet so far from home!'

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**Who acts:** rustle, you, we · **What happens:** be, ask, meet · **To what, where:** you, little creature, home

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rustle, you, 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:pg3027:18:101
# text = 'Oh, is it you?' asked the little creature; 'how strange that we should meet so far from home!'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | rustle | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | you | the little creature |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent creature=Recipient |
| 3 | **meet** | should | we |  |  | home |  | far *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: 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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