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title: Besides, it is nearly evening, and we should do well to find some pl… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides, it is nearly evening, and we should do well to find some place in which to spend the night.’ Who acts: couple, we. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 96

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Besides, it is nearly evening, and we should do well to find some place in which to spend the night.’

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**Who acts:** couple, we · **What happens:** be, do, find, spend · **To what, where:** evening, place

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple, 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:pg7277:7:96
# text = Besides, it is nearly evening, and we should do well to find some place in which to spend the night.’
1	Besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	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** | present | couple | evening |  |  |  | nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | should | we | evening *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evening=Eventuality |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | some place |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 4 | **spend** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | some place *not said here* |  | some place | night |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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