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title: But, as unluckily often happens, the one to whom she owed the most,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, as unluckily often happens, the one to whom she owed the most, the crab-fairy, was forgotten, and by this, as in the case of other babies you have read about, much mischief was wrought. Who acts: this, queen, you, much mischief. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, par
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 54

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But, as unluckily often happens, the one to whom she owed the most, the crab-fairy, was forgotten, and by this, as in the case of other babies you have read about, much mischief was wrought.

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**Who acts:** this, queen, you, much mischief · **What happens:** happen, owe, forget, read, be · **To what, where:** one, case

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, queen, you, much mischief), 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:pg3027:22:54
# text = But, as unluckily often happens, the one to whom she owed the most, the crab-fairy, was forgotten, and by this, as in the case of other babies you have read about, much mischief was wrought.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	unluckily	unluckily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	owed	owe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
39	about	about	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | this *not said here* | the one and the crab fairy |  |  |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **owe** | past | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **forget** | past · passive | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **read** | present · perfect | you |  |  | the case |  | of other babies; about *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of baby=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | past | much mischief |  |  |  |  | wrought *property* | tree rules |

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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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