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title: 'The boy does not seem to be able to part the beasts,' he cried to h… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'The boy does not seem to be able to part the beasts,' he cried to his second brother; 'go and help him, or I shall never get to sleep.' Who acts: boy, I. 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 19

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'The boy does not seem to be able to part the beasts,' he cried to his second brother; 'go and help him, or I shall never get to sleep.'

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**Who acts:** boy, I · **What happens:** not seem, be, cry, go, help, not get · **To what, where:** second brother, boy

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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 (boy, I), 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:pg3027:36:19
# text = 'The boy does not seem to be able to part the beasts,' he cried to his second brother; 'go and help him, or I shall never get to sleep.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	TO	_	35	case	_	_
35	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **seem** | present · do-support | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | boy |  | boy's second brother |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **help** | infinitive | boy *not said here* |  | boy |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **not** **get** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | to sleep *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to sleep=Result |

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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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