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title: 'Now that we own such a splendid troop of oxen you had better hasten… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Now that we own such a splendid troop of oxen you had better hasten and get yourself a wife, lest some illness should overtake them. Who acts: we, you, splendid troop, illness. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 113

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'Now that we own such a splendid troop of oxen you had better hasten and get yourself a wife, lest some illness should overtake them.

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**Who acts:** we, you, splendid troop, illness · **What happens:** own, have, hasten, get, overtake · **To what, where:** splendid troop, yourself, oxen

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you, splendid troop, illness), 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:pg3027:20:113
# text = 'Now that we own such a splendid troop of oxen you had better hasten and get yourself a wife, lest some illness should overtake them.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	own	own	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
15	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	overtake	overtake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | present | we | such splendid troop of oxen |  |  | now |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot troop=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | you | such splendid troop of oxen *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hasten** | infinitive | such splendid troop of oxen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive | such splendid troop of oxen *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary wife=Theme |
| 5 | **overtake** | should | some illness | oxen *= ox* |  |  |  |  | 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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