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title: ‘Because we’ll drive there together and bring it carefully back betw… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Because we’ll drive there together and bring it carefully back between us.’ Who acts: we. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 29

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‘Because we’ll drive there together and bring it carefully back between us.’

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** drive, bring · **To what, where:** pot

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg641:16:29
# text = ‘Because we’ll drive there together and bring it carefully back between us.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | future | we |  |  | there |  | together *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | we *not said here* | pot |  |  |  | between us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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