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title: The falcon remained where he was, but the cat lay down outside the p… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The falcon remained where he was, but the cat lay down outside the principal gate, causing terrible excitement among the rats. Who acts: falcon, cat. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 125

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The falcon remained where he was, but the cat lay down outside the principal gate, causing terrible excitement among the rats.

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**Who acts:** falcon, cat · **What happens:** remain, be, lay down, cause · **To what, where:** principal gate, terrible excitement

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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 (falcon, cat), 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:pg3027:14:125
# text = The falcon remained where he was, but the cat lay down outside the principal gate, causing terrible excitement among the rats.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | the falcon |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | falcon |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lay down** | infinitive | the cat |  |  | the principal gate |  | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent outside gate=Destination |
| 4 | **cause** | gerund | the cat *not said here* | terrible excitement |  |  |  | among the rats | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition excitement=Patient |

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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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