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title: The fakeer rose, and, making a sign to the king to follow, walked a… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fakeer rose, and, making a sign to the king to follow, walked a few paces along a dark passage. Who acts: fakeer. 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 38

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The fakeer rose, and, making a sign to the king to follow, walked a few paces along a dark passage.

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**Who acts:** fakeer · **What happens:** rise, make, follow, walk · **To what, where:** sign, few paces, dark passage

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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 (fakeer), 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:pg3027:3:38
# text = The fakeer rose, and, making a sign to the king to follow, walked a few paces along a dark passage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fakeer	fakeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
16	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	paces	pace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	along	along	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the fakeer |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | gerund |  | a sign |  |  |  | to the king | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product |
| 3 | **follow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **walk** | past | the fakeer *not said here* | a few paces |  | a dark passage |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pace=Theme along passage=Trajectory |

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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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