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title: I can bear it no longer, and if I do not get a letter from him soon… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I can bear it no longer, and if I do not get a letter from him soon I shall leave this horrible place and go back to see what is the matter. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 18

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I can bear it no longer, and if I do not get a letter from him soon I shall leave this horrible place and go back to see what is the matter.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** bear, not get, leave, go back, see, be · **To what, where:** period, letter, horrible place, matter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg3027:27:18
# text = I can bear it no longer, and if I do not get a letter from him soon I shall leave this horrible place and go back to see what is the matter.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	no	no	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | can | I | period |  |  |  | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | I | a letter |  |  |  | from king; soon *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent letter=Theme from he=Source |
| 3 | **leave** | shall | I | this horrible place |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **go back** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | the matter |  |  |  |  | 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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