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title: 'Oh, my dear husband,' wept she, 'what will you think when you come… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Oh, my dear husband,' wept she, 'what will you think when you come to the castle to fetch me and find me gone? Who acts: dear husband, you, me. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 58

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'Oh, my dear husband,' wept she, 'what will you think when you come to the castle to fetch me and find me gone?

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**Who acts:** dear husband, you, me · **What happens:** weep, think, come, fetch, find, go · **To what, where:** queen, castle, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear husband, you, me), 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:pg3027:27:58
# text = 'Oh, my dear husband,' wept she, 'what will you think when you come to the castle to fetch me and find me gone?
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | my dear husband | queen |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | present | you |  |  | the castle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | participle | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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