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title: And without another word he left the hall, leaving Jose staring with… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And without another word he left the hall, leaving Jose staring with surprise and horror. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 115

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And without another word he left the hall, leaving Jose staring with surprise and horror.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** leave, stare · **To what, where:** hall, Jose

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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 (king), 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:pg3027:31:115
# text = And without another word he left the hall, leaving Jose staring with surprise and horror.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	without	without	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	Jose	Jose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | king | the hall |  |  |  | without another word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | king *not said here* | Jose |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jose=Theme |
| 3 | **stare** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with surprise and horror | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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