--- title: 'I think you told me you were fond of porridge,' said Gudu; but Isur… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'I think you told me you were fond of porridge,' said Gudu; but Isuro answered: 'You are mistaking me for somebody else, as I always eat meat when I can get it.' Who acts: I, you, Gudu, Isuro. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/7/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/) / 7 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 7 'I think you told me you were fond of porridge,' said Gudu; but Isuro answered: 'You are mistaking me for somebody else, as I always eat meat when I can get it.' **Who acts:** I, you, Gudu, Isuro · **What happens:** think, tell, be, say, answer, mistake · **To what, where:** me, meat, porridge · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I, you, Gudu, Isuro), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:4:7 # text = 'I think you told me you were fond of porridge,' said Gudu; but Isuro answered: 'You are mistaking me for somebody else, as I always eat meat when I can get it.' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 fond fond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 porridge porridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 Gudu Gudu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 Isuro Isuro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 mistaking mistake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 ccomp _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 somebody somebody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 obl _ _ 28 else else ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 33 advmod _ _ 33 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 34 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | you | | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | past | you | | | | | of porridge; fond *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gudu | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Isuro | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **mistake** | present · progressive | You | me | | | | for somebody | tree rules | | 7 | **eat** | present | I | meat | | | | always *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | | 8 | **get** | can | I | porridge | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/8/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/)