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title: And whenever any one of them waved his hands about and struggled the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And whenever any one of them waved his hands about and struggled the goldsmith would cry out: Who acts: one, goldsmith. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 7

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And whenever any one of them waved his hands about and struggled the goldsmith would cry out:

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**Who acts:** one, goldsmith · **What happens:** wave, struggle, cry out · **To what, where:** hands

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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 (one, 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:pg3027:12:7
# text = And whenever any one of them waved his hands about and struggled the goldsmith would cry out:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | past | any one of people | order's hands |  |  |  | about, whenever *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **struggle** | past | any one of people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | would | the goldsmith |  |  |  |  |  | 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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