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title: And now farewell,' continued the rat; 'you have a long way to go, an… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And now farewell,' continued the rat; 'you have a long way to go, and will do well to start before daybreak.' Who acts: rat, you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 17

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And now farewell,' continued the rat; 'you have a long way to go, and will do well to start before daybreak.'

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**Who acts:** rat, you · **What happens:** continue, have, go, do, start · **To what, where:** long way

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rat, 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:pg3027:15:17
# text = And now farewell,' continued the rat; 'you have a long way to go, and will do well to start before daybreak.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	farewell	farewell	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
6	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | the rat |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | you | a long way |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a long way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | future | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **start** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | before daybreak |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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