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title: So the next day Makoma and the giants set out to get poles to build… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the next day Makoma and the giants set out to get poles to build the kraal, leaving only Chi-eswa-mapiri to look after the place and cook some venison which they had killed. Who acts: next day, poles. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 97

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So the next day Makoma and the giants set out to get poles to build the kraal, leaving only Chi-eswa-mapiri to look after the place and cook some venison which they had killed.

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**Who acts:** next day, poles · **What happens:** set out, get, build, leave, look, cook · **To what, where:** poles, kraal, Chi eswa mapiri, venison

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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 (next day, poles), 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:pg3027:1:97
# text = So the next day Makoma and the giants set out to get poles to build the kraal, leaving only Chi-eswa-mapiri to look after the place and cook some venison which they had killed.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	kraal	kraal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	Chi	Chi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	eswa	eswa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	mapiri	mapiri	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	venison	venison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | the next day |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | the next day *not said here* | poles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **build** | to-infinitive | poles *not said here* | the kraal |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kraal=Product |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund | the next day *not said here* | Chi eswa mapiri |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mapiri=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | the next day *not said here* |  |  |  | after the place |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **cook** | infinitive | the next day *not said here* | some venison |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent venison=Patient |
| 7 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | some venison |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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