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title: 'So, little worm! it is you who steal our treasures!' exclaimed the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'So, little worm! it is you who steal our treasures!' exclaimed the biggest. ' Who acts: little worm, you, our. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 14

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'So, little worm! it is you who steal our treasures!' exclaimed the biggest. '

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**Who acts:** little worm, you, our · **What happens:** be, steal, exclaim, treasure · **To what, where:** you, treasures, biggest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little worm, you, our), 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:pg3027:20:14
# text = 'So, little worm! it is you who steal our treasures!' exclaimed the biggest. '
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	steal	steal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
16	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | little worm | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **steal** | present | you | our treasures |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=Theme |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past |  | the biggest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **treasure** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: 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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