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title: 'Oh, it needs no pondering,' cried the queen joyfully, holding up he… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Oh, it needs no pondering,' cried the queen joyfully, holding up her clasped hands, and making Muffette do likewise, in token of gratitude. Who acts: matter, Muffette. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 47

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'Oh, it needs no pondering,' cried the queen joyfully, holding up her clasped hands, and making Muffette do likewise, in token of gratitude.

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**Who acts:** matter, Muffette · **What happens:** need, ponder, cry, hold up, clasp, make · **To what, where:** queen, clasped hands, Muffette, token

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, Muffette), 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:pg3027:28:47
# text = 'Oh, it needs no pondering,' cried the queen joyfully, holding up her clasped hands, and making Muffette do likewise, in token of gratitude.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	pondering	ponder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	clasped	clasp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
23	Muffette	Muffette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | matter |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **ponder** *not said to happen* | gerund | matter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the queen |  |  |  | joyfully *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic |
| 4 | **hold up** | gerund |  | queen's clasped hands |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme |
| 5 | **clasp** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **make** | gerund |  | Muffette |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** | infinitive | Muffette *not said here* |  |  | token of gratitude |  | likewise *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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