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title: Now all this time neither the cat nor the falcon had had any food, a… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now all this time neither the cat nor the falcon had had any food, and the falcon soon got tired carrying such a heavy burden. Who acts: cat, falcon. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 19

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Now all this time neither the cat nor the falcon had had any food, and the falcon soon got tired carrying such a heavy burden.

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**Who acts:** cat, falcon · **What happens:** have, get, carry · **To what, where:** food, heavy burden

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, falcon), 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:pg3027:15:19
# text = Now all this time neither the cat nor the falcon had had any food, and the falcon soon got tired carrying such a heavy burden.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc:preconj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
23	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	26	det:predet	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · perfect | the cat nor the falcon | any food |  |  | now; time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | past | the falcon |  |  |  |  | soon, tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | the falcon *not said here* | such heavy burden |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Theme |

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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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