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title: You will find him sitting on the steps weeping for his daughter, who… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You will find him sitting on the steps weeping for his daughter, who has just died while the prince was away hunting. Who acts: You, danger, steps, daughter. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 56

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You will find him sitting on the steps weeping for his daughter, who has just died while the prince was away hunting.

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**Who acts:** You, danger, steps, daughter, prince · **What happens:** find, sit, weep, die, hunt · **To what, where:** danger

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, danger, steps, daughter), 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:pg3027:25:56
# text = You will find him sitting on the steps weeping for his daughter, who has just died while the prince was away hunting.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | future | You | danger |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | danger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the steps | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location |
| 3 | **weep** | gerund | the steps *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for danger's daughter | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **die** | present · perfect | danger's daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **hunt** | past · progressive | the prince |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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