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title: ‘Sir, his highness has graciously ordered a Danish soup and red Hamb… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Sir, his highness has graciously ordered a Danish soup and red Hamburg dumplings.’ A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 102

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‘Sir, his highness has graciously ordered a Danish soup and red Hamburg dumplings.’

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**What happens:** order · **To what, where:** Sir

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg641:27:102
# text = ‘Sir, his highness has graciously ordered a Danish soup and red Hamburg dumplings.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	highness	highness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	graciously	graciously	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Hamburg	Hamburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | present · perfect · passive |  | Sir |  |  |  | graciously *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary soup=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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