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title: So the young men started off one morning in high spirits, never doub… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the young men started off one morning in high spirits, never doubting that work such as they might be willing to do would be had for the asking, as soon as their little store of money was spent. Who acts: young men, that, spirits, asking. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Open
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 37

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So the young men started off one morning in high spirits, never doubting that work such as they might be willing to do would be had for the asking, as soon as their little store of money was spent.

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**Who acts:** young men, that, spirits, asking · **What happens:** start off, not doubt, work, be, do, have · **To what, where:** high spirits

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young men, that, spirits, asking), 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:pg3027:16:37
# text = So the young men started off one morning in high spirits, never doubting that work such as they might be willing to do would be had for the asking, as soon as their little store of money was spent.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	doubting	doubt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	ccomp	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
30	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	csubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start off** | past | the young men |  |  | high spirits | morning |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morning=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **doubt** | gerund | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work** | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | might | spirits *= spirit* |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | spirits *= spirit* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** | would · passive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **spend** | past · passive | asking |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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