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title: And signing to him to sit down with him under a tree, he set the tab… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And signing to him to sit down with him under a tree, he set the table in front of them, and struck it three times, crying: Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 27

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And signing to him to sit down with him under a tree, he set the table in front of them, and struck it three times, crying:

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** sign, sit down, set, strike, cry · **To what, where:** Jack, tree, table, front

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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 (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:pg3027:20:27
# text = And signing to him to sit down with him under a tree, he set the table in front of them, and struck it three times, crying:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	signing	sign	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** | gerund | Jack *not said here* |  | Jack |  |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **sit down** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* |  |  | a tree |  | with Jack | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
| 3 | **set** | past | Jack | the table |  | front of table |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent table=Theme in front=Destination |
| 4 | **strike** | past | Jack *not said here* | front |  |  | time |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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