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title: Still, I will give you some payment, therefore go up into the loft,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Still, I will give you some payment, therefore go up into the loft, and choose for yourself one of the caskets that lies there. Who acts: I, caskets. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 54

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Still, I will give you some payment, therefore go up into the loft, and choose for yourself one of the caskets that lies there.

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**Who acts:** I, caskets · **What happens:** give, go up, choose, lie · **To what, where:** payment, you, loft, one

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, caskets), 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:pg3027:11:54
# text = Still, I will give you some payment, therefore go up into the loft, and choose for yourself one of the caskets that lies there.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	loft	loft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	caskets	casket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | I | some payment | you |  | still |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient payment=Theme |
| 2 | **go up** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | the loft |  | therefore *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **choose** | infinitive | I *not said here* | one of the caskets |  |  |  | for yourself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent one=Theme for yourself=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **lie** | present | the caskets |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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