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title: You will be a long time in getting to it, if ever you get to it at a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You will be a long time in getting to it, if ever you get to it at all; but you shall have the loan of my horse, and then you can ride on it to an old woman who is a neighbor of mine: perhaps she can tell you about him. Who acts: You, old woman, woman. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew L
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 70

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You will be a long time in getting to it, if ever you get to it at all; but you shall have the loan of my horse, and then you can ride on it to an old woman who is a neighbor of mine: perhaps she can tell you about him.

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**Who acts:** You, old woman, woman · **What happens:** be, get, have, ride, tell, loan · **To what, where:** long time, drop, all, loan, neighbor, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, old woman, woman), 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:pg503:4:70
# text = You will be a long time in getting to it, if ever you get to it at all; but you shall have the loan of my horse, and then you can ride on it to an old woman who is a neighbor of mine: perhaps she can tell you about him.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	loan	loan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	parataxis	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
49	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
50	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
53	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	52	iobj	_	_
54	about	about	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | future | You | a long time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | gerund | You *not said here* |  | drop |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result |
| 3 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  | drop | all | ever |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result |
| 4 | **have** | shall | you | the loan of my horse |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Patient |
| 5 | **ride** | can | you |  |  | drop | then | to a old woman and a neighbor | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to woman=Trajectory |
| 6 | **is a** | present | a old woman and a neighbor | a neighbor |  |  |  | of mine | tree rules |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | woman |  | you |  |  | about horse; perhaps *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about he=Topic |
| 8 | **loan** |  |  | my horse |  |  |  |  | nom loan «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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