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title: 'At last you have followed the counsel that was given you,' said the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'At last you have followed the counsel that was given you,' said the raven; 'and now, having learned wisdom, you may go home again to Grianaig. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 123

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'At last you have followed the counsel that was given you,' said the raven; 'and now, having learned wisdom, you may go home again to Grianaig.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** follow, give, say, have, learn, go · **To what, where:** last, counsel, you, raven, learned wisdom, Grianaig · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg3027:5:123
# text = 'At last you have followed the counsel that was given you,' said the raven; 'and now, having learned wisdom, you may go home again to Grianaig.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
24	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	parataxis	_	_
30	home	home	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Grianaig	Grianaig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present · perfect · passive |  | last |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme counsel=Attribute |
| 2 | **give** | past · passive |  | the counsel | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the raven |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent raven=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | gerund |  | learned wisdom |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Patient |
| 5 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go** | may | you |  |  | Grianaig | again | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to grianaig=Initial\_Location |

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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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