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title: ‘Somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’ Who acts: Somebody. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’, sentence 4

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‘Somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’

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**Who acts:** Somebody · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Porridge

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Somebody), 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:pg7277:33:4
# text = ‘Somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	Been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
5	At	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | Somebody |  |  | My Porridge |  |  | tree rules |

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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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