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title: They were horribly jealous, and ready to eat each other up for her s… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They were horribly jealous, and ready to eat each other up for her sake, so they readily accepted the charge. Who acts: dominions. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 6

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They were horribly jealous, and ready to eat each other up for her sake, so they readily accepted the charge.

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**Who acts:** dominions · **What happens:** be, eat up, accept · **To what, where:** each, charge

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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 (dominions), 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:pg3027:29:6
# text = They were horribly jealous, and ready to eat each other up for her sake, so they readily accepted the charge.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	horribly	horribly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	9	obj	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	fixed	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | dominions *= dominion* |  |  |  |  | horribly, jealous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | dominions *= dominion* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat up** | to-infinitive | dominions *= dominion* *not said here* | each |  |  |  | for wife's sake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient |
| 4 | **accept** | past | dominions *= dominion* | the charge |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=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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