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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 21

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So, without telling anyone what she intended to do, she ordered a little low carriage to be built, something like a sledge, only it was on two wheels--just big enough to hold one person.

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**Who acts:** other, carriage · **What happens:** tell, intend, do, order, build, be · **To what, where:** anyone, little low carriage, two wheels, one person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, carriage), 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:pg3027:27:21
# text = So, without telling anyone what she intended to do, she ordered a little low carriage to be built, something like a sledge, only it was on two wheels--just big enough to hold one person.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	appos	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	just	just	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
36	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | other *not said here* |  | anyone |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |
| 2 | **intend** | past | other |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | other *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **order** | past | other | a little low carriage |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme |
| 5 | **build** | to-infinitive · passive | other *not said here* | a little low carriage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V» |
| 6 | **is** | past | carriage |  |  | two wheels |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **hold** | to-infinitive | carriage *not said here* | one person |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |

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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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