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title: The young man stopped, not able to believe his ears, but supposed th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The young man stopped, not able to believe his ears, but supposed that pain had made the princess cross, as it sometimes does. Who acts: young man, pain. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 1

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The young man stopped, not able to believe his ears, but supposed that pain had made the princess cross, as it sometimes does.

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**Who acts:** young man, pain · **What happens:** stop, believe, suppose, make, do · **To what, where:** ears, pain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, pain), 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:pg3027:13:1
# text = The young man stopped, not able to believe his ears, but supposed that pain had made the princess cross, as it sometimes does.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
26	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | the young man |  |  |  |  | able *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **believe** | to-infinitive | the young man *not said here* | man's ears |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus |
| 3 | **suppose** | past | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | that pain |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary cross=Product |
| 5 | **do** | present | pain |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn act-114-1 «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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