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title: In the evening, when they returned, they found the giant helpless an… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the evening, when they returned, they found the giant helpless and tied to a tree by one enormous hair! Who acts: poles. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 98

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In the evening, when they returned, they found the giant helpless and tied to a tree by one enormous hair!

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**Who acts:** poles · **What happens:** return, find, tie

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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 (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:pg3027:1:98
# text = In the evening, when they returned, they found the giant helpless and tied to a tree by one enormous hair!
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | poles *= pole* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | poles *= pole* |  |  |  | evening | helpless *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tie** | participle | poles *= pole* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a tree; by one enormous hair | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to tree=Co-Patient |

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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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