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title: His wife was too astonished at all these wonders to ask any question… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His wife was too astonished at all these wonders to ask any questions, but his daughter Shasasa kept begging him to tell her how he had suddenly become so great; so at last he revealed the whole secret, and even entrusted Sipao the Mirror to her care, saying: Who acts: wife, daughter, Gopani. A sent
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 105

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His wife was too astonished at all these wonders to ask any questions, but his daughter Shasasa kept begging him to tell her how he had suddenly become so great; so at last he revealed the whole secret, and even entrusted Sipao the Mirror to her care, saying:

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**Who acts:** wife, daughter, Gopani · **What happens:** be, ask, keep, beg, tell, become · **To what, where:** wonders, questions, Gopani, daughter, whole secret, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, daughter, Gopani), 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:pg3027:2:105
# text = His wife was too astonished at all these wonders to ask any questions, but his daughter Shasasa kept begging him to tell her how he had suddenly become so great; so at last he revealed the whole secret, and even entrusted Sipao the Mirror to her care, saying:
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	Shasasa	Shasasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	even	even	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	entrusted	entrust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
45	Sipao	Sipao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Mirror	Mirror	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Gopani's wife |  |  | all wonders |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Gopani's wife *not said here* | any questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 3 | **keep** | past | Gopani's daughter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | Gopani's daughter *not said here* |  | Gopani |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Gopani's daughter *not said here* |  | daughter |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 6 | **become** | past · perfect | Gopani |  |  |  |  | great, suddenly *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **reveal** | past | Gopani | the whole secret |  | last |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic |
| 8 | **entrust** | past | Gopani *not said here* | Sipao | daughter's care |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sipao=Theme to care=Recipient |
| 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Gopani *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **care** |  | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=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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