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title: Several days went by, and the king and queen hardly ceased from entr… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Several days went by, and the king and queen hardly ceased from entreating the aid of the giant, who by this time was getting weary of waiting. Who acts: Several days, aid. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 50

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Several days went by, and the king and queen hardly ceased from entreating the aid of the giant, who by this time was getting weary of waiting.

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**Who acts:** Several days, aid · **What happens:** go by, cease, entreat, get, wait · **To what, where:** king, aid

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Several days, aid), 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:pg3027:29:50
# text = Several days went by, and the king and queen hardly ceased from entreating the aid of the giant, who by this time was getting weary of waiting.
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	entreating	entreat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
27	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go by** | past | Several days |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cease** | participle · passive |  | the king and queen |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **entreat** | gerund |  | the aid of the giant |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Recipient |
| 4 | **get** | past · progressive | the aid of the giant |  |  |  | time | weary *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **wait** | gerund | the aid of the giant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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