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title: Instantly poor Mrs. Goldsmith tumbled over; and the stranger, horrif… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Instantly poor Mrs. Goldsmith tumbled over; and the stranger, horrified at seeing what he had done, was immediately seized by the goldsmith, who ran out screaming: Who acts: poor Mrs. Goldsmith, stranger, goldsmith. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dep
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 85

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Instantly poor Mrs. Goldsmith tumbled over; and the stranger, horrified at seeing what he had done, was immediately seized by the goldsmith, who ran out screaming:

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**Who acts:** poor Mrs. Goldsmith, stranger, goldsmith · **What happens:** tumble over, horrify, see, do, seize, run out · **To what, where:** stranger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Mrs. Goldsmith, stranger, goldsmith), 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:pg3027:11:85
# text = Instantly poor Mrs. Goldsmith tumbled over; and the stranger, horrified at seeing what he had done, was immediately seized by the goldsmith, who ran out screaming:
1	Instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Goldsmith	Goldsmith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	horrified	horrify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tumble over** | past | poor Mrs. Goldsmith |  |  |  |  | instantly, over *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **horrify** | participle · passive |  | the stranger |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | stranger |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **seize** | past · passive | the goldsmith |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **run out** | past | the goldsmith |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | the goldsmith *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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