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title: You are wise and know the lore of fairies and of witches; tell me wh… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You are wise and know the lore of fairies and of witches; tell me where I can find them, and what I must do to bring them to life again.' 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 6

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You are wise and know the lore of fairies and of witches; tell me where I can find them, and what I must do to bring them to life again.'

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** be, know, tell, find, do, bring · **To what, where:** lore, me, witches, life · **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:pg3027:31:6
# text = You are wise and know the lore of fairies and of witches; tell me where I can find them, and what I must do to bring them to life again.'
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | You |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | You *not said here* | the lore of fairies and witches |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lore=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **find** | can | I | witches *= witch* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 5 | **do** | must | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 6 | **bring** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | witches *= witch* |  | life | again |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to life=Destination |

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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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