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title: 'And where is this castle?' inquired the country swallow, who, like… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'And where is this castle?' inquired the country swallow, who, like all the rest, and the children most of all, had been listening with deep attention. Who acts: castle. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 36

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'And where is this castle?' inquired the country swallow, who, like all the rest, and the children most of all, had been listening with deep attention.

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**Who acts:** castle · **What happens:** be, inquire, listen · **To what, where:** castle, country swallow

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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 (castle), 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:pg3027:33:36
# text = 'And where is this castle?' inquired the country swallow, who, like all the rest, and the children most of all, had been listening with deep attention.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux	_	_
30	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | this castle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | this castle | the country swallow |  |  |  | like all rest and the children  most of all | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent swallow=Recipient |
| 3 | **listen** | past · perfect · progressive | this castle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with deep attention | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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