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title: 'I thank you for your counsel,' spake Ian Direach, 'and I will be ca… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I thank you for your counsel,' spake Ian Direach, 'and I will be careful to follow it.' Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 51

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'I thank you for your counsel,' spake Ian Direach, 'and I will be careful to follow it.'

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** thank, be, follow · **To what, where:** you, counsel

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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 (I), 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:pg3027:7:51
# text = 'I thank you for your counsel,' spake Ian Direach, 'and I will be careful to follow it.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	spake	speak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
12	Direach	Direach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | I |  | you |  |  | for your counsel | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for counsel=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | future | I |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | counsel |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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