--- title: They could hardly believe in their good fortune, for everything had… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They could hardly believe in their good fortune, for everything had happened exactly as they wished. Who acts: Tulip, everything. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/37/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/) / 37 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 37 They could hardly believe in their good fortune, for everything had happened exactly as they wished. **Who acts:** Tulip, everything · **What happens:** believe, happen, wish · **To what, where:** good fortune 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 (Tulip, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:23:37 # text = They could hardly believe in their good fortune, for everything had happened exactly as they wished. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 for for SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 14 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | could | Tulip | | | Tulip's good fortune | | hardly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **happen** | past · perfect | everything | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **wish** | past | Tulip | | | | | exactly *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/38/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/)