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title: ‘Father! it is she! it is Zizi!’ exclaimed Désiré, who entered at th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Father! it is she! it is Zizi!’ exclaimed Désiré, who entered at this moment. Who acts: pin, Father, Désiré. 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 286

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‘Father! it is she! it is Zizi!’ exclaimed Désiré, who entered at this moment.

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**Who acts:** pin, Father, Désiré · **What happens:** be, exclaim, enter · **To what, where:** Famine, Zizi, Désiré

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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 (pin, Father, Désiré), 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:pg540:40:286
# text = ‘Father! it is she! it is Zizi!’ exclaimed Désiré, who entered at this moment.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | pin | Famine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | pin | Zizi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Father and Zizi | Désiré |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent désiré=Topic |
| 4 | **enter** | past | Désiré |  |  |  | moment |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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