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title: But they were not quite so merry when they woke next morning and beh… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But they were not quite so merry when they woke next morning and beheld ten thousand horsemen, and as many archers, surrounding the palace. Who acts: courtiers. 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 85

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But they were not quite so merry when they woke next morning and beheld ten thousand horsemen, and as many archers, surrounding the palace.

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**Who acts:** courtiers · **What happens:** not be, wake, behold, surround · **To what, where:** thousand horsemen, palace

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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 (courtiers), 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:pg3027:20:85
# text = But they were not quite so merry when they woke next morning and beheld ten thousand horsemen, and as many archers, surrounding the palace.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	beheld	behold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
15	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	_
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	archers	archer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | courtiers *= courtier* |  |  |  |  | merry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wake** | past | courtiers *= courtier* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **behold** | participle | courtiers *= courtier* *not said here* | thousand horsemen |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horseman=Stimulus |
| 4 | **surround** | gerund | courtiers *= courtier* *not said here* | the palace |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Co-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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