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title: So they went to the tree and unfastened the cord, and turned to go b… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they went to the tree and unfastened the cord, and turned to go back to the cave where they had slept, dragging the greyhound after them. Who acts: eyes. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 31

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So they went to the tree and unfastened the cord, and turned to go back to the cave where they had slept, dragging the greyhound after them.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** go, unfasten, turn, go back, sleep, drag · **To what, where:** tree, cord, greyhound

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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:pg3027:18:31
# text = So they went to the tree and unfastened the cord, and turned to go back to the cave where they had slept, dragging the greyhound after them.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	unfastened	unfasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **unfasten** | participle | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | the cord |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | past | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go back** | to-infinitive | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the cave *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to cave=Result |
| 5 | **sleep** | past · perfect | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **drag** | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | the greyhound |  |  | after eyes *= eye* |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greyhound=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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