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title: On the second day of their journey Labakan questioned Omar as to the… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the second day of their journey Labakan questioned Omar as to the orders he had to carry out, and to his surprise heard this tale. Who acts: Labakan, orders, surprise, confidences. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 48

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On the second day of their journey Labakan questioned Omar as to the orders he had to carry out, and to his surprise heard this tale.

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**Who acts:** Labakan, orders, surprise, confidences · **What happens:** question, have, carry out, hear, journey, surprise · **To what, where:** Omar, orders, tale

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Labakan, orders, surprise, confidences), 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:pg2435:34:48
# text = On the second day of their journey Labakan questioned Omar as to the orders he had to carry out, and to his surprise heard this tale.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	questioned	question	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Omar	Omar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **question** *speech: other* | past |  |  | Omar |  | day | as the orders | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent omar=Recipient as order=Attribute |
| 2 | **have** | past | Labakan | the orders *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry out** | to-infinitive | the orders *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hear** | past | Labakan's surprise | this tale |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus |
| 5 | **journey** |  | confidences *= confidence* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **surprise** |  | Labakan |  |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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