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title: 'You did not obey my counsel,' said the raven, hopping towards him,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'You did not obey my counsel,' said the raven, hopping towards him, 'and so trouble has come upon you. Who acts: You, trouble. 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 98

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'You did not obey my counsel,' said the raven, hopping towards him, 'and so trouble has come upon you.

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**Who acts:** You, trouble · **What happens:** not obey, say, hop, come · **To what, where:** counsel, raven · **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, trouble), 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:pg3027:5:98
# text = 'You did not obey my counsel,' said the raven, hopping towards him, 'and so trouble has come upon you.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **obey** | past · do-support | You | my counsel |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the raven |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | towards counsel | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination |
| 4 | **come** | present · perfect | trouble |  |  |  |  | upon you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon you=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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