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title: ‘Oho!’ exclaimed the fox to himself, ‘you think you will escape me t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oho!’ exclaimed the fox to himself, ‘you think you will escape me that way, do you? Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 72

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‘Oho!’ exclaimed the fox to himself, ‘you think you will escape me that way, do you?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** exclaim, think, escape, do · **To what, where:** fox, thought, me, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs. 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:pg7277:13:72
# text = ‘Oho!’ exclaimed the fox to himself, ‘you think you will escape me that way, do you?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oho	oho	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past |  | the fox | thought |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fox=Topic to himself=Recipient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **escape** | future | you | me |  |  |  | that way *obl:unmarked* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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