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title: 'Bring me the Princess Bella-Flor this moment,' stammered he, 'for i… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Bring me the Princess Bella-Flor this moment,' stammered he, 'for if you return without her I will have you drowned!' Who acts: you, I. 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 114

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'Bring me the Princess Bella-Flor this moment,' stammered he, 'for if you return without her I will have you drowned!'

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** bring, stammer, return, have, drown · **To what, where:** Bella Flor, me, Flor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, 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:pg3027:31:114
# text = 'Bring me the Princess Bella-Flor this moment,' stammered he, 'for if you return without her I will have you drowned!'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	Bella	Bella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Flor	Flor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	stammered	stammer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | infinitive |  | the Bella Flor | me |  | moment |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination flor=Theme |
| 2 | **stammer** *speech: other* | past |  | Flor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | without Princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drown** | participle | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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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