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title: 'Not enough pepper,' said the giantess, gulping down large morsels,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Not enough pepper,' said the giantess, gulping down large morsels, in order the hide the surprise she felt. ' Who acts: enough pepper, hide. 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 94

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'Not enough pepper,' said the giantess, gulping down large morsels, in order the hide the surprise she felt. '

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**Who acts:** enough pepper, hide · **What happens:** say, gulp down, feel · **To what, where:** giantess, large morsels, order · **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 (enough pepper, hide), 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:pg3027:27:94
# text = 'Not enough pepper,' said the giantess, gulping down large morsels, in order the hide the surprise she felt. '
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	giantess	giantess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	gulping	gulp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	morsels	morsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | enough pepper | the giantess |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giantess=Topic |
| 2 | **gulp down** | gerund | enough pepper *not said here* | large morsels |  | order |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient |
| 3 | **feel** | past | the hide | order *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=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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