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title: This reply was so unexpected that for some moments neither of the br… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This reply was so unexpected that for some moments neither of the brothers made any answer. Who acts: reply, moments. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 113

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This reply was so unexpected that for some moments neither of the brothers made any answer.

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**Who acts:** reply, moments · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** answer

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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 (reply, moments), 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:pg3027:19:113
# text = This reply was so unexpected that for some moments neither of the brothers made any answer.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
10	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this reply |  |  |  |  | unexpected *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | some moments | any answer |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=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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