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title: And they jumped on the loom, and wove so fast and so skilfully that… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And they jumped on the loom, and wove so fast and so skilfully that in a very short time the cloth was ready and was as fine as any king ever wore. Who acts: cats, cloth, king. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 113

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And they jumped on the loom, and wove so fast and so skilfully that in a very short time the cloth was ready and was as fine as any king ever wore.

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**Who acts:** cats, cloth, king · **What happens:** jump, weave, be, wear · **To what, where:** loom

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cats, cloth, king), 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:pg3027:10:113
# text = And they jumped on the loom, and wove so fast and so skilfully that in a very short time the cloth was ready and was as fine as any king ever wore.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	loom	loom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wove	weave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	skilfully	skilfully	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	33	advmod	_	_
33	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | cats *= cat* |  |  | the loom |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on loom=Trajectory |
| 2 | **weave** | past | cats *= cat* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the cloth |  |  |  | time | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | cats *= cat* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wear** | past | any king |  |  |  | ever |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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