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title: Unknown to the king, or to anybody but Becasigue, he planned that, a… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 79

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Unknown to the king, or to anybody but Becasigue, he planned that, as soon as he was able, he would make his escape and pass the rest of his life alone in some solitary place.

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**Who acts:** king, prince · **What happens:** plan, be, make, escape, pass · **To what, where:** that, prince, rest, solitary place

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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 (king, 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:pg3027:23:79
# text = Unknown to the king, or to anybody but Becasigue, he planned that, as soon as he was able, he would make his escape and pass the rest of his life alone in some solitary place.
1	Unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	obl	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	planned	plan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
38	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | past | king | that |  |  |  | to anybody | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | king |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | would | king | prince |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **escape** | infinitive | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pass** | infinitive | prince *not said here* | the rest of prince's life |  | some solitary place |  | alone *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent rest=Theme in place=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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