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title: 'Her remembrance will always be dear to me,' answered the king gentl… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Her remembrance will always be dear to me,' answered the king gently, though all present expected him to rebuke the frog severely for her impertinence. Who acts: remembrance, present, king, frog. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 74

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'Her remembrance will always be dear to me,' answered the king gently, though all present expected him to rebuke the frog severely for her impertinence.

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**Who acts:** remembrance, present, king, frog · **What happens:** be, answer, expect, rebuke, remember · **To what, where:** me, king, frog

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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 (remembrance, present, king, frog), 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:pg3027:28:74
# text = 'Her remembrance will always be dear to me,' answered the king gently, though all present expected him to rebuke the frog severely for her impertinence.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	rebuke	rebuke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	impertinence	impertinence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | frog's remembrance |  | me |  |  | always, dear *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the king |  |  | gently *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality |
| 3 | **expect** | past | all present | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rebuke** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | the frog |  |  |  | for frog's impertinence; severely *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent frog=Theme for impertinence=Attribute |
| 5 | **remember** |  | frog |  |  |  |  |  | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: poss=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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