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title: 'So I am to have that lean creature, which is nothing but horns, am… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'So I am to have that lean creature, which is nothing but horns, am I?' cried the lion in a rage. ' Who acts: I, lean creature. 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 90

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'So I am to have that lean creature, which is nothing but horns, am I?' cried the lion in a rage. '

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**Who acts:** I, lean creature · **What happens:** have, be, cry · **To what, where:** lean creature, nothing, lion, rage

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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, lean creature), 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:pg3027:18:90
# text = 'So I am to have that lean creature, which is nothing but horns, am I?' cried the lion in a rage. '
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	appos	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
21	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | that lean creature |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that lean creature | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the lion |  | a rage |  |  | tree rules |

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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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