--- title: Now I think I can leave her with you for one day, and before nightfa… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now I think I can leave her with you for one day, and before nightfall I shall be back again.' 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/61/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/) / 61 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 61 Now I think I can leave her with you for one day, and before nightfall I shall be back again.' **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** think, leave, be · **To what, where:** cow · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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. **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:pg3027:7:61 # text = Now I think I can leave her with you for one day, and before nightfall I shall be back again.' 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 before before ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 nightfall nightfall NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 20 back back ADV RB _ 3 parataxis _ _ 21 again again ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I | | | | now | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | can | I | | cow | | day | with you | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with you=Theme | | 3 | **is** | shall | I | | | | before nightfall; again | back *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/62/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/)