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title: I am hungry, so come with me to the shepherd who is sitting over the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I am hungry, so come with me to the shepherd who is sitting over there, and we will ask him to sell us one of his sheep.' Who acts: I, shepherd, 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 16

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I am hungry, so come with me to the shepherd who is sitting over there, and we will ask him to sell us one of his sheep.'

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**Who acts:** I, shepherd, we · **What happens:** be, come, sit over, ask, sell · **To what, where:** shepherd, one, us

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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 (I, shepherd, 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:pg3027:18:16
# text = I am hungry, so come with me to the shepherd who is sitting over there, and we will ask him to sell us one of his sheep.'
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	over	over	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	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 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with me; to the shepherd | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shepherd=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sit over** | present · progressive | the shepherd |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | future | we |  | shepherd |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | one of shepherd's sheep | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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