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title: Then he remembered the cows, and, somewhat frightened, turned back t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he remembered the cows, and, somewhat frightened, turned back to seek them. Who acts: wisdom. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 23

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Then he remembered the cows, and, somewhat frightened, turned back to seek them.

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**Who acts:** wisdom · **What happens:** remember, frighten, turn back, seek · **To what, where:** cows

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wisdom), 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:pg3027:30:23
# text = Then he remembered the cows, and, somewhat frightened, turned back to seek them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | wisdom | the cows |  |  | then |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cow=Theme |
| 2 | **frighten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | somewhat *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **turn back** | past | wisdom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | wisdom *not said here* | cows *= cow* |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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