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title: 'You will be more astonished when I tell you that on my arrival here… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'You will be more astonished when I tell you that on my arrival here for the summer I found my nest occupied by a shameless sparrow! " Who acts: You, I, nest, my. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 2

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'You will be more astonished when I tell you that on my arrival here for the summer I found my nest occupied by a shameless sparrow! "

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**Who acts:** You, I, nest, my · **What happens:** be, tell, find, occupy, arrive · **To what, where:** you, arrival, nest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. 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, nest, my), 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:pg3027:33:2
# text = 'You will be more astonished when I tell you that on my arrival here for the summer I found my nest occupied by a shameless sparrow! "
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	shameless	shameless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | You |  |  |  |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I |  | you | my arrival; here |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **find** | past | I | my nest |  |  | summer |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent nest=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **occupy** | participle | my nest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a shameless sparrow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **arrive** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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