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title: 'Good deeds bear fruit sooner or later,' observed the horse; 'but mo… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Good deeds bear fruit sooner or later,' observed the horse; 'but mount again, as we have far to go.' Who acts: Good deeds, 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 62

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'Good deeds bear fruit sooner or later,' observed the horse; 'but mount again, as we have far to go.'

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**Who acts:** Good deeds, we · **What happens:** bear, observe, mount, have, go · **To what, where:** fruit, horse

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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 (Good deeds, 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:pg3027:32:62
# text = 'Good deeds bear fruit sooner or later,' observed the horse; 'but mount again, as we have far to go.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bear	bear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	mount	mount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | present | Good deeds | fruit |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 2 | **observe** | past |  | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |
| 3 | **mount** | infinitive | Good deeds *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | we |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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