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title: 'The young flies will be coming out now,' murmured a third, 'and the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'The young flies will be coming out now,' murmured a third, 'and they will all be eaten up by the river fish! Who acts: young flies, river fish. 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 30

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'The young flies will be coming out now,' murmured a third, 'and they will all be eaten up by the river fish!

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**Who acts:** young flies, river fish · **What happens:** come out, murmur, eat up · **To what, where:** third, flies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (young flies, river fish), 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:pg3027:26:30
# text = 'The young flies will be coming out now,' murmured a third, 'and they will all be eaten up by the river fish!
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | future · progressive | the young flies |  |  |  | now | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past |  | a third |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat up** | future · passive | the river fish | flies *= fly* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

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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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