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title: His thoughts went back to the scene of the morning, and he wondered… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His thoughts went back to the scene of the morning, and he wondered if, after all, he had not made a great mistake in marrying a low-born wife, however beautiful she might be. Who acts: thoughts, prince, great mistake, wife. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, wit
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 15

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His thoughts went back to the scene of the morning, and he wondered if, after all, he had not made a great mistake in marrying a low-born wife, however beautiful she might be.

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**Who acts:** thoughts, prince, great mistake, wife · **What happens:** go back, wonder, not make, marry, bear, be · **To what, where:** great mistake, born wife

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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 (thoughts, prince, great mistake, wife), 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:pg3027:13:15
# text = His thoughts went back to the scene of the morning, and he wondered if, after all, he had not made a great mistake in marrying a low-born wife, however beautiful she might be.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	marrying	marry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	however	however	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | prince's thoughts |  |  |  |  | to the scene of the morning *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to scene=Result |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | prince |  |  |  | after all |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **make** | past · perfect | prince | a great mistake |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product |
| 4 | **marry** | gerund | a great mistake *not said here* | a born wife |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
| 5 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **be** | might | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **think** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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