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title: Out there both boys and girls marry early, and very soon, it seemed… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Out there both boys and girls marry early, and very soon, it seemed to the mother, a message was sent by a rich man on the other side of the great hills offering a fat herd of oxen in exchange for the girl. Who acts: boys, it, rich man, great hills. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew La
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 110

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Out there both boys and girls marry early, and very soon, it seemed to the mother, a message was sent by a rich man on the other side of the great hills offering a fat herd of oxen in exchange for the girl.

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**Who acts:** boys, it, rich man, great hills · **What happens:** marry, seem, send, offer · **To what, where:** message, other side, fat herd, exchange

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, it, rich man, great hills), 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:pg3027:20:110
# text = Out there both boys and girls marry early, and very soon, it seemed to the mother, a message was sent by a rich man on the other side of the great hills offering a fat herd of oxen in exchange for the girl.
1	Out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	marry	marry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
36	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | present | both boys and girls |  |  | there |  | early *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  | to the mother; soon *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past · passive | a rich man | a message |  | the other side of the great hills |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **offer** | gerund | the great hills *not said here* | a fat herd of oxen |  | exchange for the girl |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent herd=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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