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title: 'Pull the canoes a little apart; they are too close for this new dan… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Pull the canoes a little apart; they are too close for this new dance,' he said, pausing for a moment. Who acts: Mink, Wolf. 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 77

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'Pull the canoes a little apart; they are too close for this new dance,' he said, pausing for a moment.

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**Who acts:** Mink, Wolf · **What happens:** pull, be, say, pause · **To what, where:** canoes · **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 (Mink, 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:pg3027:34:77
# text = 'Pull the canoes a little apart; they are too close for this new dance,' he said, pausing for a moment.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	pausing	pause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | infinitive |  | the canoes |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked*; apart *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Mink |  |  |  |  | for this new dance; close *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **pause** | gerund | Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: 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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