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title: ‘Oh, madam,’ replied he, ‘you can never guess the days and the hours… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, madam,’ replied he, ‘you can never guess the days and the hours I have passed lost in admiration of you.’ Who acts: madam, you, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 24

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‘Oh, madam,’ replied he, ‘you can never guess the days and the hours I have passed lost in admiration of you.’

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**Who acts:** madam, you, I · **What happens:** reply, not guess, pass, lose, admire · **To what, where:** days, admiration, you

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (madam, you, 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:pg640:12:24
# text = ‘Oh, madam,’ replied he, ‘you can never guess the days and the hours I have passed lost in admiration of you.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	‘	‘	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
23	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | madam |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **guess** | can | you |  |  |  | day |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pass** | present · perfect | I | the days and the hours *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  | admiration of you |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in admiration=Eventuality |
| 5 | **admire** |  |  | you |  |  |  |  | nom admiration «feeling 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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