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title: 'Hasten, hasten, Covan the Brown-haired, for your cows are in the co… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Hasten, hasten, Covan the Brown-haired, for your cows are in the corn, and you must drive them out!' Who acts: you, cows. 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 69

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'Hasten, hasten, Covan the Brown-haired, for your cows are in the corn, and you must drive them out!'

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**Who acts:** you, cows · **What happens:** hasten, be, drive out · **To what, where:** Covan, cows

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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), 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:pg3027:30:69
# text = 'Hasten, hasten, Covan the Brown-haired, for your cows are in the corn, and you must drive them out!'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Covan	Covan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | imperative | you *not said here* | Covan |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **hasten** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | your cows |  |  |  |  | for the corn | tree rules |
| 4 | **drive out** | must | you | cows *= cow* |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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