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title: 'Now come out to walk,' said the raven, 'but take heed that you wond… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Now come out to walk,' said the raven, 'but take heed that you wonder not at aught you may behold; neither shall you touch anything. 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 86

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'Now come out to walk,' said the raven, 'but take heed that you wonder not at aught you may behold; neither shall you touch anything.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** come out, walk, say, take, not wonder, touch · **To what, where:** raven, heed, anything · **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:pg3027:5:86
# text = 'Now come out to walk,' said the raven, 'but take heed that you wonder not at aught you may behold; neither shall you touch anything.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
31	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | out *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | you *not said here* | the raven |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent raven=Topic |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | heed |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | you | heed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **touch** | shall | you | anything |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Co-Theme |

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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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