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title: 'Let us take it and row over to the island, where there must be a ho… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Let us take it and row over to the island, where there must be a house,' said the eldest brother; 'and perhaps they will give us food and shelter.' Who acts: you, us, eldest brother, brothers. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 44

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'Let us take it and row over to the island, where there must be a house,' said the eldest brother; 'and perhaps they will give us food and shelter.'

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**Who acts:** you, us, eldest brother, brothers · **What happens:** let, take, row over, be, say, give · **To what, where:** us, half, island, house, food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, eldest brother, brothers), 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:pg3027:16:44
# text = 'Let us take it and row over to the island, where there must be a house,' said the eldest brother; 'and perhaps they will give us food and shelter.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	row	row	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
32	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	_
33	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | us *not said here* | half |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **row over** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | the island and a house |  | over *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to island=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the eldest brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **give** | future | brothers *= brother* | food and shelter | us |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient food=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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