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title: For nine years I have resisted them; now I can do so no longer, and… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For nine years I have resisted them; now I can do so no longer, and have made choice of the fair young maiden playing at ball yonder.' Who acts: 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 76

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For nine years I have resisted them; now I can do so no longer, and have made choice of the fair young maiden playing at ball yonder.'

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** resist, do, make, play · **To what, where:** desires, choice, ball

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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 (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:pg3027:28:76
# text = For nine years I have resisted them; now I can do so no longer, and have made choice of the fair young maiden playing at ball yonder.'
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	resisted	resist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	no	no	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
20	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl	_	_
26	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	csubj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resist** | present · perfect | I | desires *= desire* |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | can | I |  |  |  | now | long *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | choice |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=Product |
| 4 | **play** | gerund |  |  |  | ball |  | yonder *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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