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title: Makoma was so delighted with the little meadow that he sat down unde… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Makoma was so delighted with the little meadow that he sat down under a large tree and removing the sack from his shoulder, took out all the giants and set them before him. ' Who acts: Makoma. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 93

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Makoma was so delighted with the little meadow that he sat down under a large tree and removing the sack from his shoulder, took out all the giants and set them before him. '

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**Who acts:** Makoma · **What happens:** be, sit down, remove, take out, set · **To what, where:** large tree, sack, shoulder, giants

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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 (Makoma), 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:pg3027:1:93
# text = Makoma was so delighted with the little meadow that he sat down under a large tree and removing the sack from his shoulder, took out all the giants and set them before him. '
1	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	removing	remove	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	before	before	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Makoma |  |  |  |  | with the little meadow; delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | Makoma |  |  | a large tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
| 3 | **remove** | gerund | Makoma *not said here* | the sack |  | Makoma's shoulder |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sack=Theme from shoulder=Source |
| 4 | **take out** | past | Makoma *not said here* | all giants |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme |
| 5 | **set** | infinitive | Makoma *not said here* | giants *= giant* |  |  | before Makoma |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before he=Destination |

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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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