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title: “As far as I could judge,” replied Simon, “it would take you nearly… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “As far as I could judge,” replied Simon, “it would take you nearly ten years in fair weather to sail there. Who acts: Simon, it. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 29

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“As far as I could judge,” replied Simon, “it would take you nearly ten years in fair weather to sail there.

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**Who acts:** Simon, it · **What happens:** judge, reply, take, sail · **To what, where:** you, fair weather · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon, it), 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:pg2435:5:29
# text = “As far as I could judge,” replied Simon, “it would take you nearly ten years in fair weather to sail there.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **judge** *in a quote* | could | Simon |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Simon |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | would | it | you |  | fair weather | year |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Value in weather=Location |
| 4 | **sail** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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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