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title: “You have forgotten,” answered the wild duck, “the proverb that runs… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You have forgotten,” answered the wild duck, “the proverb that runs, ‘mountain and mountain can never meet, but one living creature can always come across another.’” Who acts: You, wild duck, proverb, mountain. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 1

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“You have forgotten,” answered the wild duck, “the proverb that runs, ‘mountain and mountain can never meet, but one living creature can always come across another.’”

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**Who acts:** You, wild duck, proverb, mountain, one living creature · **What happens:** forget, answer, run, not meet, come · **To what, where:** another · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wild duck, proverb, mountain), 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:pg2435:21:1
# text = “You have forgotten,” answered the wild duck, “the proverb that runs, ‘mountain and mountain can never meet, but one living creature can always come across another.’”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	32	advmod	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
33	across	across	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** *in a quote* | present · perfect | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the wild duck |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** *in a quote* | present | the proverb |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **meet** *in a quote* | can | mountain and mountain |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | can | one living creature |  |  | another |  | always *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across another=Initial\_Location |

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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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