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title: The stories wandered wherever the Buddhist missionaries went, and th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The stories wandered wherever the Buddhist missionaries went, and the earliest French voyageurs told them to the Red Indians. Who acts: stories, Buddhist missionaries, earliest French voyageurs. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 27

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The stories wandered wherever the Buddhist missionaries went, and the earliest French voyageurs told them to the Red Indians.

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**Who acts:** stories, Buddhist missionaries, earliest French voyageurs · **What happens:** wander, go, tell · **To what, where:** stories · **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 (stories, Buddhist missionaries, earliest French voyageurs), 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:pg3027:1:27
# text = The stories wandered wherever the Buddhist missionaries went, and the earliest French voyageurs told them to the Red Indians.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
13	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	voyageurs	voyageur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | the stories |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | the Buddhist missionaries |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the earliest French voyageurs |  | stories *= story* |  |  | to the Red Indians | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to indian=Recipient |

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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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