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title: 'I am half a fairy,' replied the frog; 'but, although I have certain… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I am half a fairy,' replied the frog; 'but, although I have certain magic gifts, I am not able to do all I wish. Who acts: I, fairy. 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 75

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'I am half a fairy,' replied the frog; 'but, although I have certain magic gifts, I am not able to do all I wish.

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**Who acts:** I, fairy · **What happens:** be, reply, have, not be, do, wish · **To what, where:** fairy, frog, certain magic gifts, all

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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 (I, fairy), 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:pg3027:27:75
# text = 'I am half a fairy,' replied the frog; 'but, although I have certain magic gifts, I am not able to do all I wish.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	6	det:predet	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	obj	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | half fairy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | half fairy | the frog |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent frog=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | present | I | certain magic gifts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |
| 6 | **wish** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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