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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 89

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At last the goldsmith quieted down, and agreed to accept one thousand gold pieces from the stranger, who immediately helped him to bury his poor wife, and then rushed off to the guest house, packed up his things and was off by daylight, lest the goldsmith should repent and accuse him as the murderer of his wife.

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**Who acts:** stranger, Goldsmith, guest house · **What happens:** quiet down, agree, accept, help, bury, rush off · **To what, where:** goldsmith, last, thousand gold pieces, stranger, poor wife, things

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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 (stranger, Goldsmith, guest house), 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:pg3027:11:89
# text = At last the goldsmith quieted down, and agreed to accept one thousand gold pieces from the stranger, who immediately helped him to bury his poor wife, and then rushed off to the guest house, packed up his things and was off by daylight, lest the goldsmith should repent and accuse him as the murderer of his wife.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	quieted	quiet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	_
13	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
33	off	off	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
45	off	off	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
52	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	repent	repent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	parataxis	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	accuse	accuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	conj	_	_
56	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	as	as	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	murderer	murderer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quiet down** | participle |  | the goldsmith *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past |  |  |  | last |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **accept** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | thousand gold pieces |  | the stranger |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent piece=Theme from stranger=Source |
| 4 | **help** | past | the stranger | Goldsmith |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **bury** | to-infinitive | Goldsmith *not said here* | Goldsmith's poor wife |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
| 6 | **rush off** | past |  |  |  |  | then | to the guest house *result*; by daylight | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result |
| 7 | **pack up** | participle | the guest house *not said here* | Goldsmith's things |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Destination |
| 8 | **repent** | should | the goldsmith |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **accuse** | infinitive | the goldsmith *not said here* | Goldsmith |  |  |  | as the murderer of Goldsmith's wife | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=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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