---
title: Who can guess the delight of the sister at the sight of her brother,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Who can guess the delight of the sister at the sight of her brother, bearing the Bird of Truth? Who acts: sister. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/99/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 99

# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 99

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Who can guess the delight of the sister at the sight of her brother, bearing the Bird of Truth?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** guess, bear, delight, sight · **To what, where:** delight, sight, Bird, brother

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (sister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg3027:33:99
# text = Who can guess the delight of the sister at the sight of her brother, bearing the Bird of Truth?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Truth	Truth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | can |  | the delight of the sister |  | the sight of witch's brother |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent delight=Attribute at sight=Value |
| 2 | **bear** | gerund |  | the Bird of Truth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient |
| 3 | **delight** |  | the sister |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | witch's brother |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/98/)
- next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/100/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/)