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title: “I would steer you so straight a course that you would soon be beyon… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I would steer you so straight a course that you would soon be beyond his reach. Who acts: bear, course. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 89

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“I would steer you so straight a course that you would soon be beyond his reach.

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**Who acts:** bear, course · **What happens:** steer, be · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, course), 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:pg3282:26:89
# text = “I would steer you so straight a course that you would soon be beyond his reach.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	steer	steer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
15	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steer** *in a quote* | would | bear | you |  |  |  | a course *obl* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | would | a course |  |  |  |  | beyond bear's reach; soon *property* | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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