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title: 'Pardon me, fair lady, but it is MY doe you are trying to steal!' — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Pardon me, fair lady, but it is MY doe you are trying to steal!' Who acts: you, wretch. 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 74

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'Pardon me, fair lady, but it is MY doe you are trying to steal!'

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**Who acts:** you, wretch · **What happens:** pardon, be, try, steal · **To what, where:** me, doe

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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, wretch), 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:pg3027:24:74
# text = 'Pardon me, fair lady, but it is MY doe you are trying to steal!'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pardon	pardon	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	MY	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	doe	doe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	appos	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pardon** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | fair lady *obl* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | wretch | MY doe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **steal** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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