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title: 'Go with me thither,' he said to Covan, 'and you shall lay aside thr… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Go with me thither,' he said to Covan, 'and you shall lay aside three-thirds of your weariness, and depart in the morning refreshed,' and Covan listened thankfully to his words, and at dawn he rose up to seek his cows. Who acts: you, raven, morning, Covan. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by A
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 99

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'Go with me thither,' he said to Covan, 'and you shall lay aside three-thirds of your weariness, and depart in the morning refreshed,' and Covan listened thankfully to his words, and at dawn he rose up to seek his cows.

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**Who acts:** you, raven, morning, Covan · **What happens:** go, say, lay, depart, refresh, listen · **To what, where:** Covan, three thirds, cows · **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, raven, morning, Covan), 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:pg3027:30:99
# text = 'Go with me thither,' he said to Covan, 'and you shall lay aside three-thirds of your weariness, and depart in the morning refreshed,' and Covan listened thankfully to his words, and at dawn he rose up to seek his cows.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Covan	Covan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	thirds	third	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	depart	depart	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	refreshed	refresh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	Covan	Covan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
37	thankfully	thankfully	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
47	up	up	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with me; thither *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | raven |  | Covan |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to covan=Recipient |
| 3 | **lay** | shall | you | three thirds of your weariness |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Result |
| 4 | **depart** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **refresh** | past | the morning |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **listen** | past | Covan |  |  |  |  | to raven's words; thankfully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme |
| 7 | **rise up** | past | raven |  |  |  | dawn |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **seek** | to-infinitive | raven *not said here* | raven's cows |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme |
| 9 | **word** |  | raven |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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