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title: Alas!' said one, 'seven of us started from the other bank and one mu… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Alas!' said one, 'seven of us started from the other bank and one must have been drowned on the crossing, as we can only find six remaining!' Who acts: seven, we, six. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 70

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Alas!' said one, 'seven of us started from the other bank and one must have been drowned on the crossing, as we can only find six remaining!'

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**Who acts:** seven, we, six · **What happens:** say, start, drown, find, remain · **To what, where:** one, other bank, crossing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven, we, six), 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:pg3027:13:70
# text = Alas!' said one, 'seven of us started from the other bank and one must have been drowned on the crossing, as we can only find six remaining!'
1	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	one	one	PRON	PRP	PronType=Ind	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
31	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nsubj	_	_
32	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | past | seven of us |  |  | the other bank |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **drown** | must · perfect · passive |  | one |  | the crossing |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **find** | can | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **remain** | gerund | six |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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