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title: One thing was clear, if she did not change her conduct very shortly… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One thing was clear, if she did not change her conduct very shortly he would have to send her away from court. Who acts: One thing, woman, prince. 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 17

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One thing was clear, if she did not change her conduct very shortly he would have to send her away from court.

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**Who acts:** One thing, woman, prince · **What happens:** be, not change, have, send, conduct · **To what, where:** conduct, woman

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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 (One thing, woman, prince), 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:pg3027:13:17
# text = One thing was clear, if she did not change her conduct very shortly he would have to send her away from court.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | One thing |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **change** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | woman | woman's conduct |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | would | prince |  |  |  |  | shortly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **send** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | woman |  |  |  | away *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **conduct** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act 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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