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title: Out of each orange will come a princess, and you can choose which yo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of each orange will come a princess, and you can choose which you like for your wife. Who acts: you. 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 68

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Out of each orange will come a princess, and you can choose which you like for your wife.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** come, choose, like · **To what, where:** princess, orange

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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 (you), 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:pg540:40:68
# text = Out of each orange will come a princess, and you can choose which you like for your wife.
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | future |  | a princess |  | each orange |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location princess=Theme |
| 2 | **choose** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **like** | present | you |  |  |  |  | for your wife | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus for wife=Attribute |

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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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