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title: Now as she lay outside on a bed, it turned out that the flies became… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 56

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Now as she lay outside on a bed, it turned out that the flies became very troublesome, and the weaver looked round for something to drive them away with; and as he had been told to pick up the nearest stone to drive the beasts away from the flock, he thought he would this time show how cleverly he could obey orders.

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**Who acts:** mother, it, flies, weaver · **What happens:** lie, turn out, become, look round, drive away, tell · **To what, where:** bed, flies, Weaver, nearest stone, beasts, orders · **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 (mother, it, flies, weaver), 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:pg3027:13:56
# text = Now as she lay outside on a bed, it turned out that the flies became very troublesome, and the weaver looked round for something to drive them away with; and as he had been told to pick up the nearest stone to drive the beasts away from the flock, he thought he would this time show how cleverly he could obey orders.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	weaver	weaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	round	round	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	44	amod	_	_
44	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	acl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
49	away	away	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
57	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
58	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	59	det	_	_
59	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl:unmarked	_	_
60	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	ccomp	_	_
61	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	62	advmod	_	_
62	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	_
63	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
64	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	65	aux	_	_
65	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	ccomp	_	_
66	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | mother |  |  | a bed | now | outside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location |
| 2 | **turn out** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | the flies |  |  |  |  | troublesome *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **look round** | past | the weaver |  |  |  |  | for something; round *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=Theme |
| 5 | **drive away** | to-infinitive | the weaver *not said here* | flies *= fly* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | Weaver |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **pick up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Weaver *not said here* | the nearest stone |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic |
| 8 | **drive** | to-infinitive | Weaver *not said here* | the beasts |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beast=Trajectory |
| 9 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Weaver |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 10 | **show** | would | Weaver |  |  |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 11 | **obey** | could | Weaver | orders |  |  |  | cleverly *property* | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |

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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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