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title: [From Cuentos, Oraciones y Adivinas, por Fernan Caballero.] — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: [From Cuentos, Oraciones y Adivinas, por Fernan Caballero.] A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 12

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\[From Cuentos, Oraciones y Adivinas, por Fernan Caballero.\]

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**What happens:** y · **To what, where:** Adivinas, Cuentos

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg3027:34:12
# text = [From Cuentos, Oraciones y Adivinas, por Fernan Caballero.]
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Cuentos	Cuentos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Oraciones	Oraciones	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	y	y	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Adivinas	Adivinas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	por	por	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Fernan	Fernan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	Caballero	Caballero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **y** | past |  | Adivinas and Fernan  por |  | Cuentos and Oraciones |  |  | tree rules |

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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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