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title: 'It does not taste at all nice,' he cried, screwing up his face; 'I… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'It does not taste at all nice,' he cried, screwing up his face; 'I would rather have one of the yellow ones.' Who acts: skin, Rabbit, I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 91

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'It does not taste at all nice,' he cried, screwing up his face; 'I would rather have one of the yellow ones.'

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**Who acts:** skin, Rabbit, I · **What happens:** not taste, cry, screw up, have · **To what, where:** all, face, one

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skin, Rabbit, I), 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:pg3027:3:91
# text = 'It does not taste at all nice,' he cried, screwing up his face; 'I would rather have one of the yellow ones.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
8	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	screwing	screw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **taste** | present · do-support | skin | all |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme all=Attribute |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **screw up** | gerund | Rabbit *not said here* | Rabbit's face |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | would | I | one of the yellow ones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |

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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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