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title: And the elands all cried: “Wretched man! it is you whom the ogre sho… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the elands all cried: “Wretched man! it is you whom the ogre should eat, and not your beautiful daughter.” Who acts: elands, hut, ogre. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 97

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And the elands all cried: “Wretched man! it is you whom the ogre should eat, and not your beautiful daughter.”

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**Who acts:** elands, hut, ogre · **What happens:** cry, be, eat · **To what, where:** Wretched man, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elands, hut, ogre), 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:pg3282:15:97
# text = And the elands all cried: “Wretched man! it is you whom the ogre should eat, and not your beautiful daughter.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	elands	eland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	parataxis	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## 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 elands | Wretched man |  |  |  | your beautiful daughter *obl*; all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | hut | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | should | the ogre |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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