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title: 'And is there no one else who can tell the poor boy where to find th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'And is there no one else who can tell the poor boy where to find the bird, if he should ever manage to reach the tower?' asked the country swallow. Who acts: one, '. 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 40

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'And is there no one else who can tell the poor boy where to find the bird, if he should ever manage to reach the tower?' asked the country swallow.

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**Who acts:** one, ' · **What happens:** be, tell, find, manage, reach, ask · **To what, where:** one, poor boy, bird, tower, country swallow · **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 (one, '), 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:pg3027:33:40
# text = 'And is there no one else who can tell the poor boy where to find the bird, if he should ever manage to reach the tower?' asked the country swallow.
1	'	'	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
7	else	else	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
24	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
31	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | no one |  |  |  | else *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | no one |  | the poor boy |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | the bird |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic |
| 4 | **manage** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | ' |  |  |  | ever |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **reach** | to-infinitive | ' *not said here* | the tower |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tower=Theme |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | no one | the country swallow |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent swallow=Recipient |

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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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