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title: And he leaned so heavily on the envoy that Becasigue feared he was g… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And he leaned so heavily on the envoy that Becasigue feared he was going to faint, and hastily laid him on the floor. Who acts: prince, Becasigue. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 69

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And he leaned so heavily on the envoy that Becasigue feared he was going to faint, and hastily laid him on the floor.

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**Who acts:** prince, Becasigue · **What happens:** learn, fear, go, faint, lay · **To what, where:** envoy, prince, floor · **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 (prince, 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:pg3027:23:69
# text = And he leaned so heavily on the envoy that Becasigue feared he was going to faint, and hastily laid him on the floor.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	envoy	envoy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	faint	faint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | prince |  |  | the envoy |  | heavily *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fear** | past | Becasigue | the envoy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **faint** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **lay** | past | prince *not said here* | prince |  | the floor |  | hastily *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on floor=Destination |

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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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