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title: Much has been left out in places, and the narrative has been broken… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Much has been left out in places, and the narrative has been broken up into conversations, the characters telling each other how matters stand, and speaking for themselves, as children, and some older people, prefer them to do. Who acts: characters, matters, older people. A sentence of «The Orange F
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 15

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Much has been left out in places, and the narrative has been broken up into conversations, the characters telling each other how matters stand, and speaking for themselves, as children, and some older people, prefer them to do.

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**Who acts:** characters, matters, older people · **What happens:** leave out, break up, tell, stand, speak, prefer · **To what, where:** places, narrative, conversations, each, matters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (characters, matters, older people), 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:pg3027:1:15
# text = Much has been left out in places, and the narrative has been broken up into conversations, the characters telling each other how matters stand, and speaking for themselves, as children, and some older people, prefer them to do.
1	Much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	conversations	conversation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	21	obj	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	fixed	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	csubj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
38	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	amod	_	_
39	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	prefer	prefer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave out** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  | places |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP» |
| 2 | **break up** | present · perfect · passive |  | the narrative |  |  |  | into conversations and the characters *result*; as children | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into conversation=Result |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the characters *not said here* | each |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient |
| 4 | **stand** | present | matters |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for matters *= matter* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **prefer** | present | some older people | matters *= matter* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | some older people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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