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title: You talk of seeking your fortunes so as not to be a burden on our mo… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You talk of seeking your fortunes so as not to be a burden on our mother, and you begin by carrying off all the food she has in the house!' Who acts: You, Heaven. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 112

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You talk of seeking your fortunes so as not to be a burden on our mother, and you begin by carrying off all the food she has in the house!'

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**Who acts:** You, Heaven · **What happens:** talk, seek, not be, begin, carry off, have · **To what, where:** fortunes, burden, food, house

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Heaven), 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:pg3027:19:112
# text = You talk of seeking your fortunes so as not to be a burden on our mother, and you begin by carrying off all the food she has in the house!'
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund | You *not said here* | your fortunes |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a burden |  |  |  | on our mother | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **carry off** | gerund | you *not said here* | all food |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | present | Heaven | all food *not said here* |  | the house |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

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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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