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title: Now both the prince and Becasigue were quite unaware that the old wo… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now both the prince and Becasigue were quite unaware that the old woman had any guests besides themselves, and, following afar, were much surprised to behold Eglantine and her charge enter the cottage. Who acts: old woman, following, Eglantine. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, O
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 83

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Now both the prince and Becasigue were quite unaware that the old woman had any guests besides themselves, and, following afar, were much surprised to behold Eglantine and her charge enter the cottage.

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**Who acts:** old woman, following, Eglantine · **What happens:** be, have, follow, behold, enter, charge · **To what, where:** guests, cottage

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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 (old woman, following, 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:pg3027:24:83
# text = Now both the prince and Becasigue were quite unaware that the old woman had any guests besides themselves, and, following afar, were much surprised to behold Eglantine and her charge enter the cottage.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc:preconj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	ccomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	unaware	unaware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	csubj	_	_
23	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
30	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	enter	enter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | now | unaware *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the old woman | any guests |  |  |  | besides prince | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Patient |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | afar *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | following |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **behold** | to-infinitive | following *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **enter** | present | Eglantine and Eglantine's charge | the cottage |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cottage=Destination |
| 7 | **charge** |  | Eglantine |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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