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title: But, quick as she was, Eglantine, her maid of honour, had time to se… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, quick as she was, Eglantine, her maid of honour, had time to see where she went, and jumped from the carriage in pursuit of her, followed at a distance by the guards. Who acts: doe, Eglantine. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 35

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But, quick as she was, Eglantine, her maid of honour, had time to see where she went, and jumped from the carriage in pursuit of her, followed at a distance by the guards.

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**Who acts:** doe, Eglantine · **What happens:** be, have, see, go, jump, follow · **To what, where:** carriage, doe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doe, Eglantine), 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:pg3027:23:35
# text = But, quick as she was, Eglantine, her maid of honour, had time to see where she went, and jumped from the carriage in pursuit of her, followed at a distance by the guards.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	parataxis	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | doe |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Eglantine |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | Eglantine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | past | doe |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **jump** | past |  |  |  | the carriage |  | in pursuit of doe | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from carriage=Trajectory |
| 6 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | at a distance | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at distance=Location |
| 7 | **pursue** |  |  | doe |  |  |  |  | nom pursuit «act 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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