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title: ‘Oh, it won’t take me long to plan out that,’ returned Bernez with a… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, it won’t take me long to plan out that,’ returned Bernez with a laugh. Who acts: it, ’. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 25

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‘Oh, it won’t take me long to plan out that,’ returned Bernez with a laugh.

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**Who acts:** it, ’ · **What happens:** not take, plan out, return · **To what, where:** me, that, Bernez

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (it, ’), 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:pg3454:26:25
# text = ‘Oh, it won’t take me long to plan out that,’ returned Bernez with a laugh.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	plan	plan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	Bernez	Bernez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take** | future | it |  | me |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 2 | **plan out** | to-infinitive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 3 | **return** | past | ’ | Bernez |  |  |  | with a laugh | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bernez=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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