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title: All I beg of you is to come with me, and, instead of hunting chicken… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All I beg of you is to come with me, and, instead of hunting chickens and such things, I will make a good meal off cheese before I die.' Who acts: I, All. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 95

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All I beg of you is to come with me, and, instead of hunting chickens and such things, I will make a good meal off cheese before I die.'

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**Who acts:** I, All · **What happens:** beg, be, hunt, make, die · **To what, where:** chickens, good meal

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, All), 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:pg3027:6:95
# text = All I beg of you is to come with me, and, instead of hunting chickens and such things, I will make a good meal off cheese before I die.'
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
17	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	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 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | I |  |  |  |  | of you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | All |  |  |  |  | with me; come *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hunt** | gerund | I *not said here* | chickens and such things |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | future | I | a good meal |  |  |  | off cheese | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Product |
| 5 | **die** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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