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title: 'Bring hither a boat,' cried the princess, 'that I may go and see fo… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Bring hither a boat,' cried the princess, 'that I may go and see for myself the harp that gives forth such music.' Who acts: I, harp. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 1

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'Bring hither a boat,' cried the princess, 'that I may go and see for myself the harp that gives forth such music.'

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**Who acts:** I, harp · **What happens:** bring, cry, go, see, give · **To what, where:** boat, princess, harp, such music

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, harp), 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:pg3027:8:1
# text = 'Bring hither a boat,' cried the princess, 'that I may go and see for myself the harp that gives forth such music.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
3	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | infinitive |  | a boat |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | may | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the harp |  |  |  | for myself | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harp=Stimulus |
| 5 | **give** | present | the harp | such music |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=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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