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title: And not content with that the six thousand froggy servants were told… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And not content with that the six thousand froggy servants were told to help also, and it was not long before they had built the prettiest little cabin in the world, and made a bed in one corner of dried ferns which they fetched from the top of the ten thousand steps. Who acts: thousand froggy serva
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 98

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And not content with that the six thousand froggy servants were told to help also, and it was not long before they had built the prettiest little cabin in the world, and made a bed in one corner of dried ferns which they fetched from the top of the ten thousand steps.

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**Who acts:** thousand froggy servants, dried ferns · **What happens:** tell, help, build, make, dry, fetch · **To what, where:** thousand froggy servants, tree, bed, one corner, top · **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 (thousand froggy servants, dried ferns), 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:pg3027:27:98
# text = And not content with that the six thousand froggy servants were told to help also, and it was not long before they had built the prettiest little cabin in the world, and made a bed in one corner of dried ferns which they fetched from the top of the ten thousand steps.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	froggy	froggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
22	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	amod	_	_
43	ferns	fern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
52	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	compound	_	_
53	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	_
54	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | the thousand froggy servants |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the thousand froggy servants *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **build** | past · perfect · passive |  | tree |  |  |  | long *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary cabin=Product |
| 4 | **make** | past |  | a bed |  | one corner of dried ferns |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product |
| 5 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **fetch** | past | dried ferns |  |  | the top of the thousand steps |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from top=Source |

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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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