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title: She decided that the last plan was the best; and so it would have be… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She decided that the last plan was the best; and so it would have been if the prince had not taken the very same direction in search of her. Who acts: Eglantine, last plan. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 60

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She decided that the last plan was the best; and so it would have been if the prince had not taken the very same direction in search of her.

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**Who acts:** Eglantine, last plan · **What happens:** decide, be, not take, search · **To what, where:** it, Eglantine

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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 (Eglantine, last plan), 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:pg3027:24:60
# text = She decided that the last plan was the best; and so it would have been if the prince had not taken the very same direction in search of her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past | Eglantine |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the last plan |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **take** | would · perfect · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme direction=Destination |
| 4 | **search** |  |  | Eglantine |  |  |  |  | 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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