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title: 'Well, I will give you your chance,' answered the ogress, with a hid… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Well, I will give you your chance,' answered the ogress, with a hideous grin; 'we will see if you can slide down this mountain. Who acts: I, we, you, your. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 114

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'Well, I will give you your chance,' answered the ogress, with a hideous grin; 'we will see if you can slide down this mountain.

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**Who acts:** I, we, you, your · **What happens:** give, answer, see, slide down, chance · **To what, where:** chance, you, ogress, mountain

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we, you, your), 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:pg3027:26:114
# text = 'Well, I will give you your chance,' answered the ogress, with a hideous grin; 'we will see if you can slide down this mountain.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ogress	ogress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	grin	grin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	slide	slide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
29	down	down	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | I | your chance | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient chance=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  | the ogress |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ogress=Eventuality |
| 3 | **see** | future | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **slide down** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | this mountain |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Agent |
| 5 | **chance** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: 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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