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title: Oh, what a good supper Jack had that night, quite forgetting that he… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, what a good supper Jack had that night, quite forgetting that he owed it to a mean trick. Who acts: good supper, Jack. 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 46

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Oh, what a good supper Jack had that night, quite forgetting that he owed it to a mean trick.

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**Who acts:** good supper, Jack · **What happens:** have, forget, owe · **To what, where:** supper, mean trick

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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 (good supper, Jack), 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:pg3027:20:46
# text = Oh, what a good supper Jack had that night, quite forgetting that he owed it to a mean trick.
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	owed	owe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | a good supper |  |  |  | night |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 2 | **forget** | gerund | a good supper *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **owe** | past | Jack | supper |  |  |  | to a mean trick *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to trick=Goal |

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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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