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title: 'Quite so,' replied the fox; 'it would be unreasonable of me to obje… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Quite so,' replied the fox; 'it would be unreasonable of me to object to your satisfying your appetite at my expense. Who acts: charity. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 88

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'Quite so,' replied the fox; 'it would be unreasonable of me to object to your satisfying your appetite at my expense.

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**Who acts:** charity · **What happens:** reply, be, satisfy · **To what, where:** fox, appetite

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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 (charity), 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:pg3027:6:88
# text = 'Quite so,' replied the fox; 'it would be unreasonable of me to object to your satisfying your appetite at my expense.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
6	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	unreasonable	unreasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
21	satisfying	satisfy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	csubj	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	expense	expense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the fox |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | would | charity |  |  |  |  | of me; to your expense; unreasonable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **satisfy** | gerund |  | your appetite |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus appetite=Experiencer |

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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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