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title: 'A mile or two along that road,' answered Jack, 'you will find an ol… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'A mile or two along that road,' answered Jack, 'you will find an old man carrying a table. Who acts: mile, you, old man. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 41

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'A mile or two along that road,' answered Jack, 'you will find an old man carrying a table.

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**Who acts:** mile, you, old man · **What happens:** answer, find, carry · **To what, where:** Jack, old man, table

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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 (mile, you, old man), 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:pg3027:20:41
# text = 'A mile or two along that road,' answered Jack, 'you will find an old man carrying a table.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | a mile |  | Jack |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent jack=Eventuality |
| 2 | **find** | future | you | a old man |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | a old man *not said here* | a table |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=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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