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title: At length he made up his mind to go to the caste and take away as mu… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length he made up his mind to go to the caste and take away as much money with him as would enable him to live in comfort for the rest of his life. 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 7

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At length he made up his mind to go to the caste and take away as much money with him as would enable him to live in comfort for the rest of his life.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** make up, go, take away, enable, live, mind · **To what, where:** mind, length, caste, much money, Jack, comfort

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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:pg3027:20:7
# text = At length he made up his mind to go to the caste and take away as much money with him as would enable him to live in comfort for the rest of his life.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	caste	caste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	enable	enable	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past | Jack | Jack's mind |  | length |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* |  |  | the caste |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to caste=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **take away** | infinitive | Jack *not said here* | much money |  |  |  | with Jack; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 4 | **enable** | would | Jack *not said here* | Jack |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* |  |  | comfort |  | for the rest of Jack's life | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in comfort=Location |
| 6 | **mind** |  | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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