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title: Meanwhile, the prince and Becasigue were wandering through the wood,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, the prince and Becasigue were wandering through the wood, till at last the prince grew so tired, that he lay down under a tree, and told Becasigue that he had better go in search of food, and of some place where they could sleep. Who acts: prince, last, Becasigue. A sentence of «The Orang
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 12

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Meanwhile, the prince and Becasigue were wandering through the wood, till at last the prince grew so tired, that he lay down under a tree, and told Becasigue that he had better go in search of food, and of some place where they could sleep.

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**Who acts:** prince, last, Becasigue · **What happens:** wonder, grow, lie down, tell, have, go · **To what, where:** wood, tree, Becasigue, search, food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, last, 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:pg3027:24:12
# text = Meanwhile, the prince and Becasigue were wandering through the wood, till at last the prince grew so tired, that he lay down under a tree, and told Becasigue that he had better go in search of food, and of some place where they could sleep.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	advcl	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
32	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	iobj	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
36	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
37	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	det	_	_
46	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
47	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	50	advmod	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · progressive | the prince and Becasigue |  |  | the wood |  | meanwhile *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **grow** | past | last |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lie down** | past | Becasigue |  |  | a tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | last *not said here* |  | Becasigue |  |  | of some place | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent becasigue=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have** | past | Becasigue |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | Becasigue *not said here* |  |  | search of food |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location |
| 7 | **sleep** | could | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **search** |  |  | food |  |  |  |  | nom search «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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