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title: Encouraged by the goldsmith they nearly all ran off the very next mo… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Encouraged by the goldsmith they nearly all ran off the very next morning to the river; and, in order that they might get down quickly to the beautiful place the goldsmith told them of, they tied great stones on to their feet and their necks, and one after another they jumped into the water as fast 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 6

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Encouraged by the goldsmith they nearly all ran off the very next morning to the river; and, in order that they might get down quickly to the beautiful place the goldsmith told them of, they tied great stones on to their feet and their necks, and one after another they jumped into the water as fast as the could, and were drowned.

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**Who acts:** people, order, one · **What happens:** encourage, run off, get down, tell, tie, jump · **To what, where:** goldsmith, river, order, people, great stones, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, order, one), 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:pg3027:12:6
# text = Encouraged by the goldsmith they nearly all ran off the very next morning to the river; and, in order that they might get down quickly to the beautiful place the goldsmith told them of, they tied great stones on to their feet and their necks, and one after another they jumped into the water as fast as the could, and were drowned.
1	Encouraged	encourage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
34	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
40	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
51	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	55	nsubj	_	_
52	after	after	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	51	nmod	_	_
54	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
56	into	into	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
59	as	as	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
60	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	55	advmod	_	_
61	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
66	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	67	aux:pass	_	_
67	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encourage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the goldsmith | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **run off** | past | people | the goldsmith *not said here* |  | the river | morning | all *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent morning=Theme to river=Trajectory |
| 3 | **get down** | might | people | order *not said here* |  |  |  | to the beautiful place; down, quickly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | order |  | people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 5 | **tie** | past | people | great stones |  |  |  | on people's feet and people's necks | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient on foot=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **jump** | past | one after another |  |  |  |  | into the water *result*; fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into water=Result |
| 7 | **drown** | past · passive | one after another *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |

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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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