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title: 'Well, I will give it another chance,' sighed the duck, 'and if it d… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Well, I will give it another chance,' sighed the duck, 'and if it does not come out of its shell in another twenty-four hours, I will just leave it alone and teach the rest of them to swim properly and to find their own food. Who acts: I, patience, rest. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by And
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 82

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'Well, I will give it another chance,' sighed the duck, 'and if it does not come out of its shell in another twenty-four hours, I will just leave it alone and teach the rest of them to swim properly and to find their own food.

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**Who acts:** I, patience, rest · **What happens:** give, sigh, not come out, leave, teach, swim · **To what, where:** patience, duck, rest, own food

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, patience, rest), 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:pg3027:8:82
# text = 'Well, I will give it another chance,' sighed the duck, 'and if it does not come out of its shell in another twenty-four hours, I will just leave it alone and teach the rest of them to swim properly and to find their own food.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
29	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	just	just	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nmod	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
48	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	_
52	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | I | patience |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient chance=Theme |
| 2 | **sigh** | past | I *not said here* | the duck |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **come out** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | patience |  |  |  |  | of patience's shell in another four hours; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **leave** | future | I | patience |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | infinitive | I *not said here* | the rest of shells |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent rest=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **swim** | to-infinitive | the rest of shells *not said here* |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **find** | to-infinitive | the rest of shells *not said here* | shells's own food |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |

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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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