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title: 'I can't stay here any longer, I Must get to the water,' repeated th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I can't stay here any longer, I Must get to the water,' repeated the duck. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 75

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'I can't stay here any longer, I Must get to the water,' repeated the duck.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not stay, get, repeat · **To what, where:** duck

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. 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:pg3027:9:75
# text = 'I can't stay here any longer, I Must get to the water,' repeated the duck.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	any	any	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
18	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stay** | can | I |  |  | here |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | must | I |  |  |  |  | to the water *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to water=Result |
| 3 | **repeat** | past |  | the duck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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