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title: As sure as there is a sun in heaven I will have some of them this ni… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As sure as there is a sun in heaven I will have some of them this night, for I have grown so thin that my very bones rattle, and my poor babies are crying for food.' Who acts: sun, I, bones, poor babies. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 59

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As sure as there is a sun in heaven I will have some of them this night, for I have grown so thin that my very bones rattle, and my poor babies are crying for food.'

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**Who acts:** sun, I, bones, poor babies · **What happens:** be, grow, rattle, cry

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, I, bones, poor babies), 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:pg3027:6:59
# text = As sure as there is a sun in heaven I will have some of them this night, for I have grown so thin that my very bones rattle, and my poor babies are crying for food.'
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	rattle	rattle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a sun in heaven |  |  |  | night | have *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rattle** | present | my bones |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | present · progressive | my poor babies |  |  |  |  | for food | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for food=Recipient |

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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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