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title: At length, when two years and two days had passed since the maiden h… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, when two years and two days had passed since the maiden had led her kids to feed on the mountain and had been seen no more, Ruais, second son of Gorla, rose up one morning, and said: A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 36

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At length, when two years and two days had passed since the maiden had led her kids to feed on the mountain and had been seen no more, Ruais, second son of Gorla, rose up one morning, and said:

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**What happens:** pass, lead, feed, see, rise up, say · **To what, where:** two years, length, maiden, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg3027:30:36
# text = At length, when two years and two days had passed since the maiden had led her kids to feed on the mountain and had been seen no more, Ruais, second son of Gorla, rose up one morning, and said:
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Ruais	Ruais	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	34	amod	_	_
34	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Gorla	Gorla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  | two years and two days |  | length |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme at length=Destination |
| 2 | **lead** | past · perfect · passive |  | the maiden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feed** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | on the mountain | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on mountain=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | no more |  |  |  | Ruais *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: more=Stimulus |
| 5 | **rise up** | past |  |  |  |  | morning |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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