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title: Well, you have escaped this time, and I am glad to find I have got a… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, you have escaped this time, and I am glad to find I have got a companion a little more intelligent than the others I have tried. Who acts: you, 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 95

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Well, you have escaped this time, and I am glad to find I have got a companion a little more intelligent than the others I have tried.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** escape, be, find, get, try · **To what, where:** companion, others · **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 (you, 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:pg3027:27:95
# text = Well, you have escaped this time, and I am glad to find I have got a companion a little more intelligent than the others I have tried.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | present · perfect | I | a companion |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer companion=Stimulus |
| 5 | **try** | present · perfect | I | the others *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality |

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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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