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title: But they had by this time come far and were very tired, and felt gla… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But they had by this time come far and were very tired, and felt glad enough to see some smoke curling up from a little hut in front of them. Who acts: sorts, smoke. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 106

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But they had by this time come far and were very tired, and felt glad enough to see some smoke curling up from a little hut in front of them.

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**Who acts:** sorts, smoke · **What happens:** have, come, be, feel, see, curl up · **To what, where:** smoke, little hut

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorts, smoke), 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:pg3027:26:106
# text = But they had by this time come far and were very tired, and felt glad enough to see some smoke curling up from a little hut in front of them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	curling	curl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	up	up	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | sorts *= sort* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present |  |  |  |  | time | far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | past | sorts *= sort* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | sorts *= sort* *not said here* | some smoke |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus |
| 6 | **curl up** | gerund | some smoke *not said here* |  |  | a little hut in front of sorts |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hut=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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