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title: This set each of them counting; but each made the same mistake of co… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This set each of them counting; but each made the same mistake of counting all except himself, so that they became certain that one of their party was missing! Who acts: This, each, same mistake, plans. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 67

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This set each of them counting; but each made the same mistake of counting all except himself, so that they became certain that one of their party was missing!

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**Who acts:** This, each, same mistake, plans, one · **What happens:** set, count, make, become, be · **To what, where:** same mistake, all

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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 (This, each, same mistake, plans), 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:pg3027:13:67
# text = This set each of them counting; but each made the same mistake of counting all except himself, so that they became certain that one of their party was missing!
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	obj	_	_
17	except	except	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | This |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **count** | gerund | each |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | past | each | the same mistake |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product |
| 4 | **count** | gerund | the same mistake *not said here* | all |  |  |  | except Weaver | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 5 | **become** | past | plans *= plan* |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | past | one of plans's party |  |  |  |  | missing *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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