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title: 'Biz-z-z,' hummed Zengi-mizi, 'ask him for Sipao the Mirror.' — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Biz-z-z,' hummed Zengi-mizi, 'ask him for Sipao the Mirror.' Who acts: z z. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 74

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'Biz-z-z,' hummed Zengi-mizi, 'ask him for Sipao the Mirror.'

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**Who acts:** z z · **What happens:** hum, ask · **To what, where:** Zengi

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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 (z z), 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:pg3027:2:74
# text = 'Biz-z-z,' hummed Zengi-mizi, 'ask him for Sipao the Mirror.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Biz	biz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	z	z	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	z	z	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	hummed	hum	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Zengi	Zengi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	mizi	mizi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Sipao	Sipao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Mirror	Mirror	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hum** | past | z z | Zengi |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zengi=Topic |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  |  | Zengi |  |  | for Sipao | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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