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title: 'Oh, sire! the Princess Bella-Flor--' answered the man, and then sto… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Oh, sire! the Princess Bella-Flor--' answered the man, and then stopped as if afraid. Who acts: sire. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 107

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'Oh, sire! the Princess Bella-Flor--' answered the man, and then stopped as if afraid.

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**Who acts:** sire · **What happens:** answer, stop · **To what, where:** man

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sire), 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:pg3027:31:107
# text = 'Oh, sire! the Princess Bella-Flor--' answered the man, and then stopped as if afraid.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Bella	Bella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Flor	Flor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | sire |  | the man |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stop** | past | sire *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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