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title: 'Let them wander where they will,' he said to his servant, 'and neve… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Let them wander where they will,' he said to his servant, 'and never seek to turn them from their way, for well they know the fields of good pasture. Who acts: you, cows, man. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 13

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'Let them wander where they will,' he said to his servant, 'and never seek to turn them from their way, for well they know the fields of good pasture.

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**Who acts:** you, cows, man · **What happens:** let, wander, say, not seek, turn, know · **To what, where:** cows, servant, way, fields · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, cows, man), 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:pg3027:30:13
# text = 'Let them wander where they will,' he said to his servant, 'and never seek to turn them from their way, for well they know the fields of good pasture.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | cows *= cow* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wander** | infinitive | cows *= cow* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  | man's servant |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **seek** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | cows *= cow* |  | cows's way |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme from way=Trajectory |
| 6 | **know** | present | cows *= cow* | the fields of good pasture |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer field=Stimulus |

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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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