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title: Meanwhile Eglantine had grown very uneasy at the long absence of her… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile Eglantine had grown very uneasy at the long absence of her mistress, and had come out to look for her. Who acts: Eglantine. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 70

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Meanwhile Eglantine had grown very uneasy at the long absence of her mistress, and had come out to look for her.

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**Who acts:** Eglantine · **What happens:** grow, come out, look, absent · **To what, where:** long absence, mistress

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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), 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:pg3027:24:70
# text = Meanwhile Eglantine had grown very uneasy at the long absence of her mistress, and had come out to look for her.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · perfect | Eglantine |  |  | the long absence of Eglantine's mistress |  | meanwhile, uneasy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at absence=Location |
| 2 | **come out** | past · perfect | Eglantine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | Eglantine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Eglantine | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=Theme |
| 4 | **absent** |  |  | Eglantine's mistress |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state 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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