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title: Thus they got to the other side without further damage than bruised… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus they got to the other side without further damage than bruised knees and elbows, and as soon as they were over, one of them began to count the party to make sure that all were safe there. Who acts: plans, one, all. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 65

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Thus they got to the other side without further damage than bruised knees and elbows, and as soon as they were over, one of them began to count the party to make sure that all were safe there.

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**Who acts:** plans, one, all · **What happens:** get, bruise, be, begin, count, make · **To what, where:** party

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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 (plans, one, all), 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:pg3027:13:65
# text = Thus they got to the other side without further damage than bruised knees and elbows, and as soon as they were over, one of them began to count the party to make sure that all were safe there.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	bruised	bruise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	elbows	elbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	over	over	ADV	RB	_	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
35	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	ccomp	_	_
40	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | plans *= plan* |  |  |  |  | to the other side *result*; without further damage than bruised knees and elbows; thus *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to side=Result |
| 2 | **bruise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | plans *= plan* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** | past | one of plans |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **count** | to-infinitive | one of plans *not said here* | the party |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | one of plans *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 7 | **is** | past | all |  |  | there |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

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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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