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title: At the end of half an hour they had made up their minds what to do,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the end of half an hour they had made up their minds what to do, and at the command of the fairies, a beautiful palace sprang up, close to that of the king and queen, but different from every palace in the world in having no windows, and only a door right under the earth. Who acts: fairies, beaut
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 75

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At the end of half an hour they had made up their minds what to do, and at the command of the fairies, a beautiful palace sprang up, close to that of the king and queen, but different from every palace in the world in having no windows, and only a door right under the earth.

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**Who acts:** fairies, beautiful palace · **What happens:** make up, do, spring up, have, mind, command · **To what, where:** minds, end, command, windows, earth, fairies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (fairies, beautiful palace), 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:pg3027:22:75
# text = At the end of half an hour they had made up their minds what to do, and at the command of the fairies, a beautiful palace sprang up, close to that of the king and queen, but different from every palace in the world in having no windows, and only a door right under the earth.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	parataxis	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	det	_	_
45	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
50	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
51	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	52	det	_	_
52	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	only	only	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
58	right	right	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
59	under	under	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past · perfect | fairies *= fairy* | fairies's minds |  |  | at the end of half hour |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | fairies *= fairy* *not said here* | fairies's minds |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **spring up** | past | a beautiful palace |  |  | the command of the fairies |  | close *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at command=Location |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | a beautiful palace *not said here* | no windows |  | the earth |  | a door *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient |
| 5 | **mind** |  | fairies *= fairy* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **command** |  |  | the fairies |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication 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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