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title: So they waited, seated on the highest chairs they could find, wrappe… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they waited, seated on the highest chairs they could find, wrapped in their warmest garments, and with piles of cushions under their feet, while the poor birds flew with numbed wings hither and thither, till they were so lucky as to discover an open window in some forgotten corner. Who acts: ladi
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 101

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So they waited, seated on the highest chairs they could find, wrapped in their warmest garments, and with piles of cushions under their feet, while the poor birds flew with numbed wings hither and thither, till they were so lucky as to discover an open window in some forgotten corner.

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**Who acts:** ladies, poor birds, birds · **What happens:** wait, seat, find, wrap, fly, numb · **To what, where:** highest chairs, warmest garments, open window, forgotten corner

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, poor birds, birds), 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:pg3027:14:101
# text = So they waited, seated on the highest chairs they could find, wrapped in their warmest garments, and with piles of cushions under their feet, while the poor birds flew with numbed wings hither and thither, till they were so lucky as to discover an open window in some forgotten corner.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	warmest	warm	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	piles	pile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	numbed	numb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
46	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	advcl	_	_
49	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	55	det	_	_
54	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	amod	_	_
55	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seat** | participle | ladies *= lady* *not said here* |  |  | the highest chairs |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **find** | could | ladies *= lady* | the highest chairs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Topic |
| 4 | **wrap** | participle | ladies *= lady* *not said here* |  |  | ladies's warmest garments |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in garment=Destination |
| 5 | **fly** | past | the poor birds |  |  |  |  | with piles of cushions under ladies's feet; with numbed wings | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **numb** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is** | past | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  | lucky *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **discover** | to-infinitive | birds *= bird* *not said here* | a open window |  | some forgotten corner |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Topic |
| 9 | **forget** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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