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title: 'The new one is the best of all,' said the children when they came d… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'The new one is the best of all,' said the children when they came down to feed the swans with biscuit and cake before going to bed. ' Who acts: new one, best, children. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 7

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'The new one is the best of all,' said the children when they came down to feed the swans with biscuit and cake before going to bed. '

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**Who acts:** new one, best, children · **What happens:** be, say, come down, feed, go · **To what, where:** children, swans, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (new one, best, children), 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:pg3027:10:7
# text = 'The new one is the best of all,' said the children when they came down to feed the swans with biscuit and cake before going to bed. '
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the new one |  |  |  |  | of all; good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the best | the children |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent child=Topic |
| 3 | **come down** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **feed** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | the swans |  |  |  | with biscuit and cake | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=Recipient |
| 5 | **go** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |

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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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