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title: He stood silent for a moment; then, crossing to the window out of wh… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He stood silent for a moment; then, crossing to the window out of which the prince was gazing, he took his arm and led him across the room. Who acts: Becasigue, prince. 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 98

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He stood silent for a moment; then, crossing to the window out of which the prince was gazing, he took his arm and led him across the room.

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**Who acts:** Becasigue, prince · **What happens:** stand, cross, gaze, take, lead · **To what, where:** window, arm, Becasigue, room

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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 (Becasigue, 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:pg3027:24:98
# text = He stood silent for a moment; then, crossing to the window out of which the prince was gazing, he took his arm and led him across the room.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	across	across	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Becasigue |  |  |  | moment | silent *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cross** | gerund | Becasigue *not said here* |  |  | the window | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **gaze** | past · progressive | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent of which=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | Becasigue | Becasigue's arm |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 5 | **lead** | past | Becasigue *not said here* | Becasigue |  | the room |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme across room=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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