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title: When she is seated I shall begin to neigh and kick, and you must say… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When she is seated I shall begin to neigh and kick, and you must say that I have never carried a woman before, and that you had better get up behind so as to be able to manage me. Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 22

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When she is seated I shall begin to neigh and kick, and you must say that I have never carried a woman before, and that you had better get up behind so as to be able to manage me.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** seat, begin, neigh, kick, say, not carry · **To what, where:** princess, woman, me · **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 (I, you), 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:pg3027:32:22
# text = When she is seated I shall begin to neigh and kick, and you must say that I have never carried a woman before, and that you had better get up behind so as to be able to manage me.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	neigh	neigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	before	before	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	xcomp	_	_
31	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
38	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	advcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | present · passive |  | princess |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 2 | **begin** | shall | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **neigh** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **kick** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **carry** | present · perfect | I | a woman |  |  |  | before *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme |
| 7 | **get up** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **is** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **manage** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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