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title: Though they were so different in many ways they became great friends… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Though they were so different in many ways they became great friends, and at length set up house together, one passing the day in hunting and the other the night. Who acts: Owl. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 69

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Though they were so different in many ways they became great friends, and at length set up house together, one passing the day in hunting and the other the night.

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**Who acts:** Owl · **What happens:** be, become, set up, pass · **To what, where:** many ways, great friends, length, hunting

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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 (Owl), 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:pg3027:26:69
# text = Though they were so different in many ways they became great friends, and at length set up house together, one passing the day in hunting and the other the night.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	appos	_	_
23	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Owl |  |  | many ways |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | Owl | great friends |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient way=Result |
| 3 | **set up** | participle |  | length *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  | hunting and the other night | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hunting=Location |

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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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