--- title: 'Oh dove!' cried the boy, addressing the bird in her own language, '… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'Oh dove!' cried the boy, addressing the bird in her own language, 'Oh dove! tell me, I pray you, where is the castle of Come-and- never-go?' Who acts: dove, I, castle. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/54/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/) / 54 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 54 'Oh dove!' cried the boy, addressing the bird in her own language, 'Oh dove! tell me, I pray you, where is the castle of Come-and- never-go?' **Who acts:** dove, I, castle · **What happens:** cry, address, tell, pray, be, come · **To what, where:** boy, bird, own language, me, you, castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (dove, I, castle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:33:54 # text = 'Oh dove!' cried the boy, addressing the bird in her own language, 'Oh dove! tell me, I pray you, where is the castle of Come-and- never-go?' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ 3 dove dove NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 addressing address VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 20 discourse _ _ 20 dove dove NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ! ! PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 22 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 32 advmod _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 33 of of SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 Come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ _ 38 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ? ? PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | dove | the boy | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic | | 2 | **address** | gerund | dove *not said here* | | the bird | dove's own language | | | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Destination | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | dove *not said here* | | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 4 | **pray** | present | I | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | | the castle | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | infinitive | the castle *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **go** | infinitive | the castle *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/55/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/)