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title: With the first rays of light the whole village was awake, and the wo… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With the first rays of light the whole village was awake, and the women set forth armed with baskets and the men with knives in order to cut up the buffalo. Who acts: whole village, women. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 83

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With the first rays of light the whole village was awake, and the women set forth armed with baskets and the men with knives in order to cut up the buffalo.

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**Who acts:** whole village, women · **What happens:** be, set, cut up, ray · **To what, where:** order, buffalo, light

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole village, women), 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:pg3027:21:83
# text = With the first rays of light the whole village was awake, and the women set forth armed with baskets and the men with knives in order to cut up the buffalo.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the whole village |  |  |  |  | with the first rays of light; awake *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | past | the women |  |  | order |  | with baskets and the men with knives; armed *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in order=Destination |
| 3 | **cut up** | to-infinitive | the women *not said here* | the buffalo |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset buffalo=Product |
| 4 | **ray** |  |  | light |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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