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title: 'No; but he is so ugly and awkward no one can put up with him,' answ… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'No; but he is so ugly and awkward no one can put up with him,' answered the stranger. Who acts: rest, ugly one. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 17

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'No; but he is so ugly and awkward no one can put up with him,' answered the stranger.

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**Who acts:** rest, ugly one · **What happens:** be, put up, answer · **To what, where:** stranger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, ugly one), 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:pg3027:9:17
# text = 'No; but he is so ugly and awkward no one can put up with him,' answered the stranger.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	awkward	awkward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
20	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | rest |  |  |  |  | ugly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put up** | can | no ugly one |  |  |  |  | with rest | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  | the stranger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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