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title: 'While the line is being made you might as well let me have one last… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'While the line is being made you might as well let me have one last dance,' remarked the mink. Who acts: you, me. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 73

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'While the line is being made you might as well let me have one last dance,' remarked the mink.

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**Who acts:** you, me · **What happens:** make, let, have, remark · **To what, where:** line, me, one last dance, mink

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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 (you, me), 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:pg3027:34:73
# text = 'While the line is being made you might as well let me have one last dance,' remarked the mink.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	12	cc	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	fixed	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mink	mink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | the line |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **let** | might | you | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | me *not said here* | one last dance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Patient |
| 4 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the mink |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mink=Topic |

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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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