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title: But in order that he may know that you have come from me I will send… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But in order that he may know that you have come from me I will send him a letter.' Who acts: fellow, you, I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 48

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But in order that he may know that you have come from me I will send him a letter.'

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**Who acts:** fellow, you, I · **What happens:** know, come, send · **To what, where:** order, letter, fellow

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, 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:pg3027:28:48
# text = But in order that he may know that you have come from me I will send him a letter.'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | may | fellow |  |  | order |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | from me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from i=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **send** | future | I | a letter | fellow |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination letter=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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