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title: Still-- no doubt your father and mother will come themselves and bri… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Still-- no doubt your father and mother will come themselves and bring the price?' Who acts: doubt. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 4

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Still-- no doubt your father and mother will come themselves and bring the price?'

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**Who acts:** doubt · **What happens:** come, bring · **To what, where:** father, price

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt), 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:pg3027:21:4
# text = Still-- no doubt your father and mother will come themselves and bring the price?'
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | future | no doubt | father |  |  | still |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | no doubt *not said here* | the price |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent price=Theme |

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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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