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title: ‘Well, at any rate, I shall soon be there,’ she thought, and shaking… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well, at any rate, I shall soon be there,’ she thought, and shaking the reins, tried to urge the horse to a gallop. Who acts: I, she. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 1

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‘Well, at any rate, I shall soon be there,’ she thought, and shaking the reins, tried to urge the horse to a gallop.

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**Who acts:** I, she · **What happens:** be, think, shake, try, urge · **To what, where:** reins, horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, she), 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:pg3454:38:1
# text = ‘Well, at any rate, I shall soon be there,’ she thought, and shaking the reins, tried to urge the horse to a gallop.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	reins	rein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
23	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	urge	urge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	gallop	gallop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | soon, there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **shake** | gerund |  | the reins |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rein=Patient |
| 4 | **try** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **urge** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  | the horse |  |  | to a gallop | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient |

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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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