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title: So the queen wandered away, and picking up a small axe which lay nea… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the queen wandered away, and picking up a small axe which lay near the door she began with the help of her friend the frog to cut down some cypress trees for the purpose. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 97

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So the queen wandered away, and picking up a small axe which lay near the door she began with the help of her friend the frog to cut down some cypress trees for the purpose.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** wander away, pick up, lie, begin, cut down, help · **To what, where:** small axe, door, frog, cypress trees, friend

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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), 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:pg3027:27:97
# text = So the queen wandered away, and picking up a small axe which lay near the door she began with the help of her friend the frog to cut down some cypress trees for the purpose.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	near	near	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
32	cypress	cypress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander away** | past | the queen |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pick up** | gerund |  | a small axe |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Topic |
| 3 | **lie** | past |  |  |  | the door |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near door=Location |
| 4 | **begin** | past | queen | the frog |  |  |  | with the help of queen's friend | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent frog=Eventuality with help=Subeventuality |
| 5 | **cut down** | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* | some cypress trees |  |  |  | for the purpose | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent tree=Product for purpose=Asset |
| 6 | **help** |  |  | queen's friend |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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