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title: 'I will certainly try,' answered the fish in a great hurry; 'but you… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I will certainly try,' answered the fish in a great hurry; 'but you must have a little patience, as it may not be an easy task.' Who acts: I, you, fish. 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 34

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'I will certainly try,' answered the fish in a great hurry; 'but you must have a little patience, as it may not be an easy task.'

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**Who acts:** I, you, fish · **What happens:** try, answer, have, not be · **To what, where:** fish, great hurry, little patience, easy task

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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 (I, you, fish), 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:pg3027:15:34
# text = 'I will certainly try,' answered the fish in a great hurry; 'but you must have a little patience, as it may not be an easy task.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
8	answered	answer	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	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | future | I |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the fish | a great hurry |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fish=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | must | you | a little patience |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | may | fish | a easy task |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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