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title: 'Quick! quick!' cried Ian to the men who held the rope. ' — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Quick! quick!' cried Ian to the men who held the rope. ' Who acts: men. 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 83

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'Quick! quick!' cried Ian to the men who held the rope. '

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** cry, hold · **To what, where:** men, rope

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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 (men), 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:pg3027:4:83
# text = 'Quick! quick!' cried Ian to the men who held the rope. '
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  | the men |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient |
| 2 | **hold** | past | the men | the rope |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=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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