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title: 'Rest now this night also,' said the raven, 'and to-morrow you shall… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Rest now this night also,' said the raven, 'and to-morrow you shall take the knight's three daughters to the edge of the rock that leads to the lower world. Who acts: you, rock. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 56

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'Rest now this night also,' said the raven, 'and to-morrow you shall take the knight's three daughters to the edge of the rock that leads to the lower world.

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**Who acts:** you, rock · **What happens:** rest, say, take, lead · **To what, where:** raven, three daughters, morrow · **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, rock), 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:pg3027:5:56
# text = 'Rest now this night also,' said the raven, 'and to-morrow you shall take the knight's three daughters to the edge of the rock that leads to the lower world.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
37	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **rest** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now; night |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the raven |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | shall | you | the knight's three daughters |  | morrow |  | to the edge of the rock | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to morrow=Destination |
| 4 | **lead** | present | the rock |  |  |  |  | to the lower world | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to world=Patient |

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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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