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title: 'You must swim across the lake,' she said, stooping to put him in, '… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'You must swim across the lake,' she said, stooping to put him in, 'and we will walk across on the line behind you.' Who acts: You, wife, we. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 100

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'You must swim across the lake,' she said, stooping to put him in, 'and we will walk across on the line behind you.'

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**Who acts:** You, wife, we · **What happens:** swim, say, stoop, put, walk · **To what, where:** lake, frog, line · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wife, we), 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:pg3027:26:100
# text = 'You must swim across the lake,' she said, stooping to put him in, 'and we will walk across on the line behind you.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	across	across	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	stooping	stoop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	across	across	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | must | You |  |  | the lake |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across lake=Trajectory |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stoop** | gerund | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* |  | frog |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
| 5 | **walk** | future | we |  |  | the line |  | behind you; across *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on line=Trajectory |

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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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