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description: But, remember that, though he is so tall and strong, he is very stupid, and many a Lapp has escaped from his clutches by playing him some clever trick.' Who acts: you, Stalos, many Lapp, Lapp. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 71

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But, remember that, though he is so tall and strong, he is very stupid, and many a Lapp has escaped from his clutches by playing him some clever trick.'

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**Who acts:** you, Stalos, many Lapp, Lapp · **What happens:** remember, be, escape, play, clutch · **To what, where:** clutches, clever trick, Lapp

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Stalos, many Lapp, Lapp), 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:pg3027:35:71
# text = But, remember that, though he is so tall and strong, he is very stupid, and many a Lapp has escaped from his clutches by playing him some clever trick.'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	clutches	clutch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
32	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Stalos |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Stalos *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | Stalos |  |  |  |  | stupid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **escape** | present · perfect | a many Lapp |  |  | Lapp's clutches |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from clutch=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **play** | gerund | a many Lapp *not said here* | some clever trick | Lapp |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary trick=Theme |
| 7 | **clutch** |  | Lapp |  |  |  |  |  | nom clutch «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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