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title: Presently they came to the town; everything here, too, was beautiful… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently they came to the town; everything here, too, was beautiful, and everything that a man might desire he could obtain. Who acts: children, everything, man, Gopani. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 67

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Presently they came to the town; everything here, too, was beautiful, and everything that a man might desire he could obtain.

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**Who acts:** children, everything, man, Gopani · **What happens:** come, be, desire, obtain · **To what, where:** town, everything

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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 (children, everything, man, Gopani), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3027:96`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:2:67
# text = Presently they came to the town; everything here, too, was beautiful, and everything that a man might desire he could obtain.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | children *= child* |  |  | the town |  | presently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | everything |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **desire** | might | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 4 | **obtain** | could | Gopani | everything |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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