--- title: 'All my news is that I am seeking service,' answered Ardan son of Go… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'All my news is that I am seeking service,' answered Ardan son of Gorla; 'I have come from far since sunrise, and glad was I to see the rays of your lamp stream into the darkness.' Who acts: news, seeking, I, Ardan son. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/30/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/30/) / 4 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 4 'All my news is that I am seeking service,' answered Ardan son of Gorla; 'I have come from far since sunrise, and glad was I to see the rays of your lamp stream into the darkness.' **Who acts:** news, seeking, I, Ardan son · **What happens:** be, come, see, ray · **To what, where:** Ardan son, rays, darkness, lamp stream 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 (news, seeking, I, Ardan son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:30:4 # text = 'All my news is that I am seeking service,' answered Ardan son of Gorla; 'I have come from far since sunrise, and glad was I to see the rays of your lamp stream into the darkness.' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 seeking seek VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 csubj _ _ 10 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 13 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 Ardan Ardan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Gorla Gorla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 acl _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 obl _ _ 25 since since ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 sunrise sunrise NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 parataxis _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 rays ray NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 lamp lamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 40 into into ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present · progressive | my news | | | | | seek *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | seeking | Ardan son | | | | of Gorla | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | present · perfect | I | Ardan son *not said here* | | | sunrise | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location son=Theme | | 4 | **see** | past | Ardan son | the rays of your lamp stream | | the darkness | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ray=Stimulus | | 5 | **ray** | | | your lamp stream | | | | | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/30/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/30/5/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/30/)