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title: But at length the end was in sight, and the hardships were forgotten… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But at length the end was in sight, and the hardships were forgotten in the vision of the towers of the king's palace; and, one bright morning, the cavalcade entered the gates with all the pomp and circumstance of a royal embassy. Who acts: end, cavalcade. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by An
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 64

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But at length the end was in sight, and the hardships were forgotten in the vision of the towers of the king's palace; and, one bright morning, the cavalcade entered the gates with all the pomp and circumstance of a royal embassy.

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**Who acts:** end, cavalcade · **What happens:** be, forget, enter · **To what, where:** sight, hardships, vision, gates

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, cavalcade), 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:pg3027:28:64
# text = But at length the end was in sight, and the hardships were forgotten in the vision of the towers of the king's palace; and, one bright morning, the cavalcade entered the gates with all the pomp and circumstance of a royal embassy.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hardships	hardship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	cavalcade	cavalcade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	41	det:predet	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	pomp	pomp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	embassy	embassy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the end |  |  | sight |  | at length | tree rules |
| 2 | **forget** | past · passive |  | the hardships |  | the vision of the towers of the king's palace |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **enter** | past | the cavalcade | the gates |  |  | morning | with all pomp and circumstance of a royal embassy | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination |

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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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