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title: So, the next day, the weaver was left at home to take care of the fa… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So, the next day, the weaver was left at home to take care of the farmer's old sick mother. 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 55

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So, the next day, the weaver was left at home to take care of the farmer's old sick mother.

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**What happens:** leave, take · **To what, where:** weaver, home, care

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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: 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:pg3027:13:55
# text = So, the next day, the weaver was left at home to take care of the farmer's old sick mother.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	weaver	weaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | the weaver |  | home | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at home=Location |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | care |  |  |  | of the farmer's old sick mother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of mother=Initial\_Location |

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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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