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title: Early next morning they started for another village, and passed on t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Early next morning they started for another village, and passed on the way a large garden where people were very busy gathering monkey- nuts. Who acts: portions, people. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 117

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Early next morning they started for another village, and passed on the way a large garden where people were very busy gathering monkey- nuts.

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**Who acts:** portions, people · **What happens:** start, pass, be, gather · **To what, where:** way, monkey nuts

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (portions, people), 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:pg3027:3:117
# text = Early next morning they started for another village, and passed on the way a large garden where people were very busy gathering monkey- nuts.
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	gathering	gather	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
24	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | portions *= portion* |  |  |  | morning | for another village | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pass** | participle | portions *= portion* *not said here* |  |  | the way |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | people |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **gather** | gerund | people *not said here* | monkey nuts |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=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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