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title: 'What can I give you?' he cried, holding out both hands to the man w… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'What can I give you?' he cried, holding out both hands to the man who had worked this wonder. ' Who acts: I, king, man. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 43

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'What can I give you?' he cried, holding out both hands to the man who had worked this wonder. '

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**Who acts:** I, king, man · **What happens:** give, cry, hold out, work · **To what, where:** you, hands, wonder

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king, man), 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:pg3027:37:43
# text = 'What can I give you?' he cried, holding out both hands to the man who had worked this wonder. '
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | can | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold out** | gerund | king *not said here* | both hands |  |  |  | to the man | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **work** | past · perfect | the man | this wonder |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent wonder=Material |

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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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