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title: “Well, I can’t wait for you,” replied the other; “I am in haste to p… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, I can’t wait for you,” replied the other; “I am in haste to push on, so farewell.” Who acts: I, son. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 48

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“Well, I can’t wait for you,” replied the other; “I am in haste to push on, so farewell.”

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**Who acts:** I, son · **What happens:** not wait, reply, be, push on · **To what, where:** other, haste · **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 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, son), 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:pg2435:37:48
# text = “Well, I can’t wait for you,” replied the other; “I am in haste to push on, so farewell.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	farewell	farewell	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wait** *in a quote* | can | I |  |  |  |  | for you; farewell *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | I *not said here* | the other |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | son |  |  | haste |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **push on** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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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