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title: At first the queen took care to keep near the rest of the hunt, but… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At first the queen took care to keep near the rest of the hunt, but gradually she stayed away longer and longer, and at last, one morning, she took advantage of the appearance of a wild boar, after which her whole court instantly galloped, to turn into a path in the opposite direction. Who acts: que
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 26

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At first the queen took care to keep near the rest of the hunt, but gradually she stayed away longer and longer, and at last, one morning, she took advantage of the appearance of a wild boar, after which her whole court instantly galloped, to turn into a path in the opposite direction.

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**Who acts:** queen, whole court · **What happens:** take, keep, stay away, gallop, turn · **To what, where:** care, rest, advantage, path

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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 (queen, whole court), 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:pg3027:27:26
# text = At first the queen took care to keep near the rest of the hunt, but gradually she stayed away longer and longer, and at last, one morning, she took advantage of the appearance of a wild boar, after which her whole court instantly galloped, to turn into a path in the opposite direction.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
43	after	after	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	obl	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
48	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	conj	_	_
53	into	into	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the queen | care |  |  | morning |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent care=Theme at first=Asset |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the queen *not said here* |  |  | the rest of the hunt |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent near rest=Location |
| 3 | **stay away** | past | queen |  |  |  |  | away, gradually, long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | queen | advantage of the appearance of a wild boar |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme |
| 5 | **gallop** | past | queen's whole court |  |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **turn** | to-infinitive | queen's whole court *not said here* |  |  | a path |  | in the opposite direction | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into path=Source in direction=Trajectory |

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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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