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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 119

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At this, Martin regretted deeply that he had been so foolish as to refuse, for his bits of bread and cheese seemed very hard when he smelt the savoury soup his brother was enjoying.

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**Who acts:** Martin, bits, brother · **What happens:** regret, be, refuse, seem, smelt, enjoy · **To what, where:** this, savoury soup

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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 (Martin, bits, brother), 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:pg3027:19:119
# text = At this, Martin regretted deeply that he had been so foolish as to refuse, for his bits of bread and cheese seemed very hard when he smelt the savoury soup his brother was enjoying.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	regretted	regret	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	smelt	smelt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	savoury	savoury	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regret** | past | Martin |  |  | this |  | deeply *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | Martin |  |  |  |  | foolish *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **refuse** | to-infinitive | Martin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **seem** | past | Martin's bits of bread and cheese |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **smelt** | past | Martin | the savoury soup |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **enjoy** | past · progressive | Martin's brother | the savoury soup *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soup=Stimulus |

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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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