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title: 'What! innocence and good behaviour are not to be met with among bir… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'What! innocence and good behaviour are not to be met with among birds, nor in the country! A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 133

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'What! innocence and good behaviour are not to be met with among birds, nor in the country!

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**What happens:** not meet · **To what, where:** innocence

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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: 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:pg3027:32:133
# text = 'What! innocence and good behaviour are not to be met with among birds, nor in the country!
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
4	innocence	innocence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **meet** | present · passive |  | innocence and good behaviour |  |  |  | with birds | tree rules |

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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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