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title: 'Ah! what a wretch I was to have hurt you,' cried he, resting her he… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Ah! what a wretch I was to have hurt you,' cried he, resting her head upon his knees; 'and now you will hate me and fly from me for ever!' Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 65

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'Ah! what a wretch I was to have hurt you,' cried he, resting her head upon his knees; 'and now you will hate me and fly from me for ever!'

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hurt, cry, rest, hate, fly · **To what, where:** wretch, head, knees, me

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3027:24:65
# text = 'Ah! what a wretch I was to have hurt you,' cried he, resting her head upon his knees; 'and now you will hate me and fly from me for ever!'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wretch	wretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
15	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	hate	hate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | past · perfect · passive |  | a wretch |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer you=Result |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rest** | gerund |  | Eglantine's head |  | doe's knees |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme upon knee=Location |
| 4 | **hate** | future | you | me |  |  | now |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 5 | **fly** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from me | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from i=Trajectory |

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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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