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title: This news cured the young man in an instant of all his ills; and he… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This news cured the young man in an instant of all his ills; and he began to plan out every detail of dress and of horses and carriages which were necessary to make the train of the envoy, whose name was Becasigue, as splendid as possible. Who acts: news, horses, name, Becasigue. A sentence of «The 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 87

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This news cured the young man in an instant of all his ills; and he began to plan out every detail of dress and of horses and carriages which were necessary to make the train of the envoy, whose name was Becasigue, as splendid as possible.

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**Who acts:** news, horses, name, Becasigue · **What happens:** cure, begin, plan out, be, make, detail · **To what, where:** young man, instant, detail, train, Becasigue, dress

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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 (news, horses, name, Becasigue), 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:pg3027:22:87
# text = This news cured the young man in an instant of all his ills; and he began to plan out every detail of dress and of horses and carriages which were necessary to make the train of the envoy, whose name was Becasigue, as splendid as possible.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cured	cure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	ills	ill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	plan	plan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	carriages	carriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	csubj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	envoy	envoy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	as	as	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	appos	_	_
48	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
49	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** | past | this news | the young man |  | a instant of news's ills |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer man=Source |
| 2 | **begin** | past | news |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **plan out** | to-infinitive | news *not said here* | every detail of dress |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | horses and carriages |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | the train of the envoy |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset train=Product |
| 6 | **is a** | past | Becasigue's name | Becasigue |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **detail** |  |  | dress |  |  |  |  | nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **name** |  | Becasigue |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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