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title: No sooner was the old man buried than Martin and Michael agreed that… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: No sooner was the old man buried than Martin and Michael agreed that they would go into the world together to seek their fortunes, while Jack stayed at home with their mother. Who acts: old man, man, Jack. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tr
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 105

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No sooner was the old man buried than Martin and Michael agreed that they would go into the world together to seek their fortunes, while Jack stayed at home with their mother.

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**Who acts:** old man, man, Jack · **What happens:** be, bury, agree, go, seek, stay · **To what, where:** old man, world, fortunes, home · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man, Jack), 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:pg3027:19:105
# text = No sooner was the old man buried than Martin and Michael agreed that they would go into the world together to seek their fortunes, while Jack stayed at home with their mother.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | no old man |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bury** | participle |  | no old man *not said here* |  |  |  | than Martin and Michael | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | no old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | would | man |  |  | the world |  | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **seek** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | man's fortunes |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |
| 6 | **stay** | past | Jack |  |  | home |  | with man's mother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |

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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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