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title: Indeed, he arrived, just as the embassy was starting, with his portr… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, he arrived, just as the embassy was starting, with his portrait, which had been painted in secret by the court painter. Who acts: news, embassy, court painter. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 89

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Indeed, he arrived, just as the embassy was starting, with his portrait, which had been painted in secret by the court painter.

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**Who acts:** news, embassy, court painter · **What happens:** arrive, start, paint, portray · **To what, where:** portrait, secret

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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, embassy, court painter), 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:pg3027:22:89
# text = Indeed, he arrived, just as the embassy was starting, with his portrait, which had been painted in secret by the court painter.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	embassy	embassy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | news |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | past · progressive | the embassy |  |  |  |  | with news's portrait | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with portrait=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **paint** | past · perfect · passive | the court painter | news's portrait |  | secret |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in secret=Destination |
| 4 | **portray** |  | news |  |  |  |  |  | nom portrait «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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