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title: 'But, really, we shall never find the Princess Bella-Flor if we wast… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'But, really, we shall never find the Princess Bella-Flor if we waste our time like this!' cried Jose. Who acts: we. 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 15

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'But, really, we shall never find the Princess Bella-Flor if we waste our time like this!' cried Jose.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** not find, waste, cry · **To what, where:** Bella Flor, Jose · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (we), 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:pg3027:32:15
# text = 'But, really, we shall never find the Princess Bella-Flor if we waste our time like this!' cried Jose.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	Bella	Bella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Flor	Flor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	waste	waste	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
24	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	Jose	Jose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find** | shall | we | the Bella Flor |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent flor=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **waste** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we |  |  |  | time | like this | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | Jose |  |  |  |  | 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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