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title: 'That is quite simple,' replied the elder sister; 'only you must do… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'That is quite simple,' replied the elder sister; 'only you must do as we did--and perhaps you won't like the treatment.' Who acts: That, you, 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 131

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'That is quite simple,' replied the elder sister; 'only you must do as we did--and perhaps you won't like the treatment.'

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**Who acts:** That, you, we · **What happens:** be, reply, do, not like · **To what, where:** elder sister, treatment

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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 (That, you, 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:pg3027:26:131
# text = 'That is quite simple,' replied the elder sister; 'only you must do as we did--and perhaps you won't like the treatment.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | simple *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the elder sister |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sister=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **like** | future | you | the treatment |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treatment=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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