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title: 'Good evening, my fine city madam,' remarked a swallow, whose manner… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Good evening, my fine city madam,' remarked a swallow, whose manners were rather rough and countryfied to another who looked particularly distinguished. ' Who acts: manners. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 119

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'Good evening, my fine city madam,' remarked a swallow, whose manners were rather rough and countryfied to another who looked particularly distinguished. '

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**Who acts:** manners · **What happens:** remark, be, look · **To what, where:** swallow

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manners), 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:pg3027:32:119
# text = 'Good evening, my fine city madam,' remarked a swallow, whose manners were rather rough and countryfied to another who looked particularly distinguished. '
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	19	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	countryfied	countryfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	conj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a swallow |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent swallow=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | manners |  |  |  |  | rough *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | manners *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | distinguished *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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