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title: Nothing that she thought of seemed good enough, so, when the message… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Nothing that she thought of seemed good enough, so, when the message was brought that the ogre and his wares were below, she at once ordered that he should be brought to her chamber. Who acts: princess, Nothing, ogre. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its d
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 51

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Nothing that she thought of seemed good enough, so, when the message was brought that the ogre and his wares were below, she at once ordered that he should be brought to her chamber.

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**Who acts:** princess, Nothing, ogre · **What happens:** think, seem, bring, be, order · **To what, where:** message, ogre, chamber

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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 (princess, Nothing, ogre), 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:pg3027:14:51
# text = Nothing that she thought of seemed good enough, so, when the message was brought that the ogre and his wares were below, she at once ordered that he should be brought to her chamber.
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	obj	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	_
6	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	below	below	ADV	RB	_	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	29	obl	_	_
29	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	ccomp	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | Nothing |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | past · passive |  | the message |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the ogre and ogre's wares |  |  |  |  | below *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **order** | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **bring** | should · passive |  | ogre |  | princess's chamber |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to chamber=Destination |

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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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