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title: As it seems it will not take long to reach the island why not send t… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As it seems it will not take long to reach the island why not send the seventh Simon? Who acts: 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 47

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As it seems it will not take long to reach the island why not send the seventh Simon?

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**Who acts:** it · **What happens:** seem, not take, reach, not send · **To what, where:** matter, island, seventh Simon

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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 (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:pg2435:5:47
# text = As it seems it will not take long to reach the island why not send the seventh Simon?
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | it | matter |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **take** | future |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive |  | the island |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **send** | infinitive |  | the seventh Simon |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent simon=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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