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description: 'Yes, of course I shall mind; but I will spend the day in planning out some new dresses; and then it will be so delightful when you come back, you know!' Who acts: I, course, you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 45

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'Yes, of course I shall mind; but I will spend the day in planning out some new dresses; and then it will be so delightful when you come back, you know!'

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**Who acts:** I, course, you · **What happens:** mind, spend, plan out, be, come back, know · **To what, where:** new dresses

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, course, you), 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:pg3027:14:45
# text = 'Yes, of course I shall mind; but I will spend the day in planning out some new dresses; and then it will be so delightful when you come back, you know!'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	fixed	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	planning	plan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
33	back	back	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mind** | shall | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **spend** | future | I |  |  |  | day |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **plan out** | gerund | I *not said here* | some new dresses |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | future | course |  |  |  | then | delightful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come back** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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