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title: Five minutes later he summoned five hundred lancers out of the corne… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Five minutes later he summoned five hundred lancers out of the cornet and bade them go after the old man and fetch back the table. Who acts: man. 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 60

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Five minutes later he summoned five hundred lancers out of the cornet and bade them go after the old man and fetch back the table.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** summon, go, fetch back · **To what, where:** hundred lancers, cornet, table

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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 (man), 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:pg3027:20:60
# text = Five minutes later he summoned five hundred lancers out of the cornet and bade them go after the old man and fetch back the table.
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	_
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	lancers	lancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cornet	cornet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | past | man | hundred lancers |  |  |  | late *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lancer=Recipient |
| 2 | **go** | present |  |  |  | the cornet and bade | after the old man |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out cornet=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **fetch back** | infinitive |  | the table |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=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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