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title: 'Counsel unsought is worth nothing,' replied, rudely, Ardan son of G… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Counsel unsought is worth nothing,' replied, rudely, Ardan son of Gorla. ' Who acts: Counsel. 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 9

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'Counsel unsought is worth nothing,' replied, rudely, Ardan son of Gorla. '

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**Who acts:** Counsel · **What happens:** be, reply · **To what, where:** nothing

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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 (Counsel), 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:pg3027:30:9
# text = 'Counsel unsought is worth nothing,' replied, rudely, Ardan son of Gorla. '
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	unsought	unsought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	rudely	rudely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Ardan	Ardan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Gorla	Gorla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Counsel | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | rudely *property* | vn respond-113 «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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