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title: 'Order Jose to appear before me instantly,' he shouted to the servan… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Order Jose to appear before me instantly,' he shouted to the servant who ran to obey his orders, so great was the noise his majesty had made; and when Jose entered the hall, wondering what in the world could be the matter, the king was nearly dumb from rage and excitement. Who acts: Order, servant,
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 113

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'Order Jose to appear before me instantly,' he shouted to the servant who ran to obey his orders, so great was the noise his majesty had made; and when Jose entered the hall, wondering what in the world could be the matter, the king was nearly dumb from rage and excitement.

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**Who acts:** Order, servant, great noise, Jose, king · **What happens:** appear, shout, run, obey, be, make · **To what, where:** servant, orders, great noise, majesty, hall, matter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Order, servant, great noise, Jose), 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:pg3027:31:113
# text = 'Order Jose to appear before me instantly,' he shouted to the servant who ran to obey his orders, so great was the noise his majesty had made; and when Jose entered the hall, wondering what in the world could be the matter, the king was nearly dumb from rage and excitement.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Order	Order	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Jose	Jose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	appear	appear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
35	Jose	Jose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	advcl	_	_
41	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	48	nsubj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	cop	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
53	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	conj	_	_
55	from	from	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | to-infinitive | Order |  |  |  | before me | instantly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Location |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | Order |  | the servant |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient |
| 3 | **run** | past | the servant |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **obey** | to-infinitive | the servant *not said here* | Order's orders |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Order *not said here* | the great noise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | the great noise *not said here* | Order's majesty |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 7 | **enter** | past | Jose | the hall |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination |
| 8 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Jose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **is a** | could |  | the matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **is** | past | the king |  |  | rage and excitement |  | dumb, nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **order** |  | Order |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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