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title: ‘Will some one be kind enough to tell me the meaning of all this?’ c… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Will some one be kind enough to tell me the meaning of all this?’ cried the Lord of Avesnes. Who acts: some. 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 280

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‘Will some one be kind enough to tell me the meaning of all this?’ cried the Lord of Avesnes.

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**Who acts:** some · **What happens:** be, tell, cry, mean · **To what, where:** meaning, me, Lord, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (some), 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:pg540:40:280
# text = ‘Will some one be kind enough to tell me the meaning of all this?’ cried the Lord of Avesnes.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
18	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Avesnes	Avesnes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | some |  |  |  |  | enough, kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | some *not said here* | the meaning of this | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient meaning=Topic |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the Lord of Avesnes |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** |  |  | this |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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