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title: By the time they had finished all the crumbs the doves felt must bet… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By the time they had finished all the crumbs the doves felt must better, and were able to fly back to their nest in the top of a tree. Who acts: homewards, finished crumbs. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 37

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By the time they had finished all the crumbs the doves felt must better, and were able to fly back to their nest in the top of a tree.

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**Who acts:** homewards, finished crumbs · **What happens:** finish, feel, be, fly back · **To what, where:** top

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (homewards, finished crumbs), 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:pg3027:12:37
# text = By the time they had finished all the crumbs the doves felt must better, and were able to fly back to their nest in the top of a tree.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | homewards *= homeward* |  |  |  | time |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **feel** | past | all finished crumbs |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | all finished crumbs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly back** | to-infinitive | all finished crumbs *not said here* |  |  | the top of a tree |  | to homewards's nest | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in top=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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