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title: 'Well, at any rate here is a bench where we can sit down, and when w… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Well, at any rate here is a bench where we can sit down, and when we are rested we will think what is best to do next.' Who acts: rate, we. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 116

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'Well, at any rate here is a bench where we can sit down, and when we are rested we will think what is best to do next.'

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**Who acts:** rate, we · **What happens:** be, sit down, rest, think, do · **To what, where:** bench, we · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rate, we), 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:pg3027:32:116
# text = 'Well, at any rate here is a bench where we can sit down, and when we are rested we will think what is best to do next.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	csubj	_	_
30	next	next	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | any rate | a bench |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit down** | can | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rest** | present · passive |  | we |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | future | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn act-114-1 «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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