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title: 'I will obey you in everything, dear brothers,' answered Lyman; and… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I will obey you in everything, dear brothers,' answered Lyman; and so she did. Who acts: I, Lyman. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 12

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'I will obey you in everything, dear brothers,' answered Lyman; and so she did.

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**Who acts:** I, Lyman · **What happens:** obey, answer, do · **To what, where:** you, everything, Lyman

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Lyman), 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:pg3027:36:12
# text = 'I will obey you in everything, dear brothers,' answered Lyman; and so she did.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
13	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	Lyman	Lyman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obey** | future | I | you |  | everything |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Lyman |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lyman=Eventuality |
| 3 | **do** | past | Lyman |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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