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title: Therefore, good father, I will take service with you at daybreak, an… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore, good father, I will take service with you at daybreak, and ask no payment till the new year dawns.' Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 11

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Therefore, good father, I will take service with you at daybreak, and ask no payment till the new year dawns.'

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take, ask · **To what, where:** good father, daybreak, payment

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. 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:pg3027:30:11
# text = Therefore, good father, I will take service with you at daybreak, and ask no payment till the new year dawns.'
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	till	till	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	dawns	dawn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | future | I | good father |  | daybreak |  | with you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent service=Theme at daybreak=Asset |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | I *not said here* | no payment |  |  | till year dawns |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent payment=Recipient |

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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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