--- title: And as they passed, the people who were singing at their work in the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And as they passed, the people who were singing at their work in the fields, abandoned their labours and saluted Insato with delight, bringing also palm wine and green cocoanuts for refreshment, as to one returned from a long journey. Who acts: men, people. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/64/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/) / 64 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 64 And as they passed, the people who were singing at their work in the fields, abandoned their labours and saluted Insato with delight, bringing also palm wine and green cocoanuts for refreshment, as to one returned from a long journey. **Who acts:** men, people · **What happens:** pass, sing, abandon, salute, bring, return · **To what, where:** work, labours, Insato, palm wine, long journey This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:2:64 # text = And as they passed, the people who were singing at their work in the fields, abandoned their labours and saluted Insato with delight, bringing also palm wine and green cocoanuts for refreshment, as to one returned from a long journey. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 18 abandoned abandon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 labours labour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 saluted salute VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 23 Insato Insato PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 bringing bring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 28 also also ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 cocoanuts cocoanut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 refreshment refreshment NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 39 case _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 37 fixed _ _ 39 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 40 returned return VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | past | men *= man* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | the people | | | men's work | | in the fields | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at work=Location | | 3 | **abandon** | past | | men's labours | | | | as one | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme labour=Source | | 4 | **salute** | past | | Insato | | | | with delight | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insato=Topic | | 5 | **bring** | gerund | | palm wine and green cocoanuts | | | | for refreshment | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wine=Theme | | 6 | **return** | participle | | | | a long journey | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from journey=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **work** | | men *= man* | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/65/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/)