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title: After giving good advice to the two eldest, he turned to Jack. — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After giving good advice to the two eldest, he turned to Jack. Who acts: Jack. 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 99

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After giving good advice to the two eldest, he turned to Jack.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** give, turn · **To what, where:** good advice, eldest, Jack

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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 (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:pg3027:19:99
# text = After giving good advice to the two eldest, he turned to Jack.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
8	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund | Jack *not said here* | good advice | the eldest |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Theme to eld=Recipient |
| 2 | **turn** | past | Jack |  | Jack |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to jack=Result |

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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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