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title: ‘If only these oranges were real fruit—fruit as refreshing as what I… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If only these oranges were real fruit—fruit as refreshing as what I ate in Flanders! Who acts: oranges, fruit, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 109

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‘If only these oranges were real fruit—fruit as refreshing as what I ate in Flanders!

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**Who acts:** oranges, fruit, I · **What happens:** be, refresh, eat · **To what, where:** real fruit, Flanders

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oranges, fruit, I), 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:pg540:40:109
# text = ‘If only these oranges were real fruit—fruit as refreshing as what I ate in Flanders!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	oranges	orange	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	refreshing	refresh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Flanders	flander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this oranges | real fruit and fruit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **refresh** | gerund | fruit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as fruit | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **eat** | past | I |  |  | Flanders |  |  | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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