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title: 'I wish you would take me into your boat!' shouted the wolf, louder… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I wish you would take me into your boat!' shouted the wolf, louder than before, and he continued to beseech the mink so long that at last he grew tired of it, and paddled to the shore close enough for the wolf to jump in. Who acts: I, you, Wolf. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang,
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 22

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'I wish you would take me into your boat!' shouted the wolf, louder than before, and he continued to beseech the mink so long that at last he grew tired of it, and paddled to the shore close enough for the wolf to jump in.

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**Who acts:** I, you, Wolf · **What happens:** wish, take, shout, continue, beseech, grow · **To what, where:** me, boat, wolf, mink, last, shore · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. 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, Wolf), 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:pg3027:34:22
# text = 'I wish you would take me into your boat!' shouted the wolf, louder than before, and he continued to beseech the mink so long that at last he grew tired of it, and paddled to the shore close enough for the wolf to jump in.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
13	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	before	before	ADV	RB	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	beseech	beseech	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	mink	mink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
35	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	paddled	paddle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
45	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
51	in	in	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | would | you |  | me | your boat |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | past |  | the wolf |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic |
| 4 | **continue** | past | Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **beseech** | to-infinitive | Wolf *not said here* | the mink |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** | past | Wolf |  |  | last |  | tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 7 | **paddle** | participle | Wolf *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  | for the wolf | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to shore=Trajectory |
| 8 | **jump in** | to-infinitive | Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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