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title: Speak on, knave; has a bird of the air revealed to you the secret?' — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Speak on, knave; has a bird of the air revealed to you the secret?' Who acts: you, air. 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 111

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Speak on, knave; has a bird of the air revealed to you the secret?'

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**Who acts:** you, air · **What happens:** speak on, have, reveal · **To what, where:** knave, bird, secret, you

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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 (you, air), 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:pg3027:31:111
# text = Speak on, knave; has a bird of the air revealed to you the secret?'
1	Speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	knave	knave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak on** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | knave |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | you *not said here* | a bird of the air |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient |
| 3 | **reveal** | participle | the air *not said here* | the secret | you |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to you=Recipient |

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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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