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title: 'If your daughter is wet already, it is all the more reason that she… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'If your daughter is wet already, it is all the more reason that she should go and get the axe. Who acts: daughter, it, mother. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 25

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'If your daughter is wet already, it is all the more reason that she should go and get the axe.

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**Who acts:** daughter, it, mother · **What happens:** be, go, get · **To what, where:** more reason, axe

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, it, mother), 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:pg3027:12:25
# text = 'If your daughter is wet already, it is all the more reason that she should go and get the axe.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	csubj	_	_
7	already	already	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | your daughter |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | all more reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | should | mother | all more reason *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location reason=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive | mother *not said here* | the axe |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer axe=Stimulus |

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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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