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title: 'Biz-z-z,' said the wasp, 'would you not like to be as great a chief… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Biz-z-z,' said the wasp, 'would you not like to be as great a chief as Insato?' Who acts: z z, you. 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 99

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'Biz-z-z,' said the wasp, 'would you not like to be as great a chief as Insato?'

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**Who acts:** z z, you · **What happens:** say, not like, be · **To what, where:** wasp · **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 (z z, you), 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:pg3027:2:99
# text = 'Biz-z-z,' said the wasp, 'would you not like to be as great a chief as Insato?'
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	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wasp	wasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Insato	Insato	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | z z | the wasp |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **like** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a great chief; as Insato | 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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