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title: 'Your counsel is good,' replied the cat, smiling to itself; and putt… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Your counsel is good,' replied the cat, smiling to itself; and putting the stone in her mouth she went off to seek the falcon. Who acts: counsel, cat. 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 18

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'Your counsel is good,' replied the cat, smiling to itself; and putting the stone in her mouth she went off to seek the falcon.

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**Who acts:** counsel, cat · **What happens:** be, reply, smile, put, go off, seek · **To what, where:** cat, counsel, stone, mouth, falcon

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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 (counsel, cat), 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:pg3027:15:18
# text = 'Your counsel is good,' replied the cat, smiling to itself; and putting the stone in her mouth she went off to seek the falcon.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Your counsel |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the cat |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic |
| 3 | **smile** | gerund |  |  | counsel |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to itself=Recipient |
| 4 | **put** | gerund | cat *not said here* | the stone |  | cat's mouth |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in mouth=Destination |
| 5 | **go off** | past | cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **seek** | to-infinitive | cat *not said here* | the falcon |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falcon=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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