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title: 'And now,' she said, 'I ought not to stay any longer, for my husband… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'And now,' she said, 'I ought not to stay any longer, for my husband will think that I have run away, or that some evil beast has devoured me.' Who acts: ', I, husband. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 49

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'And now,' she said, 'I ought not to stay any longer, for my husband will think that I have run away, or that some evil beast has devoured me.'

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**Who acts:** ', I, husband · **What happens:** say, not stay, think, run away, devour · **To what, where:** evil beast · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (', I, husband), 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:pg3027:22:49
# text = 'And now,' she said, 'I ought not to stay any longer, for my husband will think that I have run away, or that some evil beast has devoured me.'
1	'	'	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
15	any	any	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
32	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | ' |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **stay** | ought | I |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | future | my husband |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **run away** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **devour** | present · perfect · passive |  | some evil beast |  |  |  |  | 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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