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title: 'Oh, wise owl, I pray you to protect and guide me, for I have come i… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Oh, wise owl, I pray you to protect and guide me, for I have come in search of the Bird of Truth. Who acts: I. 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 82

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'Oh, wise owl, I pray you to protect and guide me, for I have come in search of the Bird of Truth.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** pray, protect, guide, come, search · **To what, where:** wise owl, me, search, Bird

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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 (I), 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:pg3027:33:82
# text = 'Oh, wise owl, I pray you to protect and guide me, for I have come in search of the Bird of Truth.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Truth	Truth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | present | I | wise owl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **guide** | infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | present · perfect | I |  |  | search of the Bird of Truth |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Location |
| 5 | **search** |  |  | the Bird of Truth |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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