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title: The next time he entered the stables the two brothers managed to be… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next time he entered the stables the two brothers managed to be in the way, and when the king praised the beautiful satin skins of the horses under their charge, and remarked how different was their condition when his grooms had first come across the lake, the young men at once began to speak of
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 65

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The next time he entered the stables the two brothers managed to be in the way, and when the king praised the beautiful satin skins of the horses under their charge, and remarked how different was their condition when his grooms had first come across the lake, the young men at once began to speak of the wonderful light which sprang from the lantern over the hut.

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**Who acts:** king, stables, grooms, wonderful light · **What happens:** enter, manage, be, praise, remark, come · **To what, where:** next time, way, beautiful satin skins, charge, different condition, lake · **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 (king, stables, grooms, wonderful light), 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:pg3027:16:65
# text = The next time he entered the stables the two brothers managed to be in the way, and when the king praised the beautiful satin skins of the horses under their charge, and remarked how different was their condition when his grooms had first come across the lake, the young men at once began to speak of the wonderful light which sprang from the lantern over the hut.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	under	under	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
36	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
37	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
41	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	grooms	groom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	46	advmod	_	_
46	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
47	across	across	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	conj	_	_
54	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
55	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	56	advmod	_	_
56	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
58	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	xcomp	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
63	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	64	nsubj	_	_
64	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	acl:relcl	_	_
65	from	from	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obl	_	_
68	over	over	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
70	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | king | the next time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Destination |
| 2 | **manage** | past | the stables |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | the stables *not said here* |  |  | the way |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **praise** | past | the king | the beautiful satin skins of the horses |  | stables's charge |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 5 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | the stables *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | stables's different condition |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **come** | past · perfect | king's grooms |  |  | the lake and the young men |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across lake=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **begin** | past | king's grooms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 9 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | king's grooms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the wonderful light | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **spring** | past | the wonderful light |  |  | the lantern |  | over the hut | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from lantern=Trajectory |
| 11 | **charge** |  | stables *= stable* |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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