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title: The young men's hearts rejoiced as they thought that at last they wo… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The young men's hearts rejoiced as they thought that at last they would be able to rest their weary limbs, and they entered the hut, but were amazed to see an ugly old woman inside, wrapped in a cloak of gold which lighted up the whole house. Who acts: hearts, brothers. A sentence of «The Orange Fai
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 47

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The young men's hearts rejoiced as they thought that at last they would be able to rest their weary limbs, and they entered the hut, but were amazed to see an ugly old woman inside, wrapped in a cloak of gold which lighted up the whole house.

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**Who acts:** hearts, brothers · **What happens:** rejoice, think, be, rest, enter, see · **To what, where:** that, last, weary limbs, hut, ugly old woman, cloak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hearts, brothers), 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:pg3027:16:47
# text = The young men's hearts rejoiced as they thought that at last they would be able to rest their weary limbs, and they entered the hut, but were amazed to see an ugly old woman inside, wrapped in a cloak of gold which lighted up the whole house.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
38	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl:relcl	_	_
48	up	up	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | past | the young men's hearts |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | brothers *= brother* | that |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | would | brothers *= brother* |  |  | last |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | brothers's weary limbs |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location limb=Theme |
| 5 | **enter** | past | brothers *= brother* | the hut |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | the young men's hearts *not said here* | a ugly old woman |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 7 | **wrap** | participle | the young men's hearts *not said here* |  |  | a cloak of gold |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloak=Destination |
| 8 | **light up** | participle · passive |  | a cloak of gold |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary house=Product |

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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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