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title: 'Since we have done you wrong,' answered Ian, the youngest, 'build u… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Since we have done you wrong,' answered Ian, the youngest, 'build us a ship, and we will go and seek your daughters. Who acts: we. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 67

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'Since we have done you wrong,' answered Ian, the youngest, 'build us a ship, and we will go and seek your daughters.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** do, answer, build, go, seek · **To what, where:** you, ship, us, daughters

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg3027:4:67
# text = 'Since we have done you wrong,' answered Ian, the youngest, 'build us a ship, and we will go and seek your daughters.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	build	build	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · perfect | we |  | you |  |  | wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **build** | infinitive |  | a ship | us |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset we=Beneficiary ship=Product |
| 4 | **go** | future | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **seek** | infinitive | we *not said here* | your daughters |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |

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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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