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title: 'Are not eight children enough,' she cried, 'without bringing us two… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Are not eight children enough,' she cried, 'without bringing us two more? Who acts: eight children. 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 96

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'Are not eight children enough,' she cried, 'without bringing us two more?

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**Who acts:** eight children · **What happens:** be, cry, bring · **To what, where:** eight children, two more, us

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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 (eight children), 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:pg3027:32:96
# text = 'Are not eight children enough,' she cried, 'without bringing us two more?
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | eight children |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | eight children |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund | eight children *not said here* | two more | us |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination more=Theme |

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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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