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title: For some minutes no one could attend to anybody but the prince; but… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For some minutes no one could attend to anybody but the prince; but as soon as he revived the lady in waiting made herself heard. Who acts: one, prince. 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 70

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For some minutes no one could attend to anybody but the prince; but as soon as he revived the lady in waiting made herself heard.

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**Who acts:** one, prince · **What happens:** attend, revive, make, hear · **To what, where:** lady

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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 (one, prince), 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:pg3027:23:70
# text = For some minutes no one could attend to anybody but the prince; but as soon as he revived the lady in waiting made herself heard.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	revived	revive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
25	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attend** | could | no one |  |  |  | minute | to anybody | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to anybody=Theme |
| 2 | **revive** | past | prince | the lady |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lady=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | gerund · passive | prince *not said here* | lady |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: herself=Product |
| 4 | **hear** | past | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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