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title: “O most delicious person! where is the Simurgh’s home? — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “O most delicious person! where is the Simurgh’s home? Who acts: most delicious person. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 99

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“O most delicious person! where is the Simurgh’s home?

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**Who acts:** most delicious person · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most delicious person), 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:pg3282:3:99
# text = “O most delicious person! where is the Simurgh’s home?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	case	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
4	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Simurgh	Simurgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | most delicious person |  |  |  |  | where *property* | 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 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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