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title: That you may always be cold, and wet and dirty, and that your shoes… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That you may always be cold, and wet and dirty, and that your shoes may ever have pools in them, till you bring me hither the blue falcon on which that feather grew.' Who acts: That, shoes, you, feather. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 36

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That you may always be cold, and wet and dirty, and that your shoes may ever have pools in them, till you bring me hither the blue falcon on which that feather grew.'

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**Who acts:** That, shoes, you, feather · **What happens:** be, have, bring, grow · **To what, where:** pools, blue falcon, me

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, shoes, you, feather), 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:pg3027:7:36
# text = That you may always be cold, and wet and dirty, and that your shoes may ever have pools in them, till you bring me hither the blue falcon on which that feather grew.'
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
20	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
34	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | That |  |  |  |  | always, cold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | may | your shoes | pools |  |  | ever | in pools *= pool* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Patient |
| 5 | **bring** | present | you | the blue falcon | me |  |  | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination falcon=Theme |
| 6 | **grow** | past | that feather |  |  |  |  | on the blue falcon | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=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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