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title: The town is not far off and we can easily get another carriage there… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The town is not far off and we can easily get another carriage there, for the wheels of this one are bad and will not hold out much longer.” Who acts: town, we, wheels. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 30

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The town is not far off and we can easily get another carriage there, for the wheels of this one are bad and will not hold out much longer.”

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**Who acts:** town, we, wheels · **What happens:** not be, get, be, not hold out · **To what, where:** carriage

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, we, wheels), 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:pg2435:2:30
# text = The town is not far off and we can easily get another carriage there, for the wheels of this one are bad and will not hold out much longer.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	off	off	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	much	much	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | the town |  |  |  |  | far, off *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | can | we | another carriage |  | there |  | easily *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer carriage=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | the wheels of this one |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **hold out** | future | the wheels of this one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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