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title: Jose still felt so bewildered with the mission that the king had giv… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Jose still felt so bewildered with the mission that the king had given him that he forgot to be astonished at hearing a horse talk. Who acts: Jose, 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 121

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Jose still felt so bewildered with the mission that the king had given him that he forgot to be astonished at hearing a horse talk.

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**Who acts:** Jose, king · **What happens:** feel, bewilder, give, forget, not be, hear · **To what, where:** Jose, horse talk

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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 (Jose, 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:pg3027:31:121
# text = Jose still felt so bewildered with the mission that the king had given him that he forgot to be astonished at hearing a horse talk.
1	Jose	Jose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
21	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Jose |  |  |  | still |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **bewilder** | participle | Jose *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the mission | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **give** | past · perfect | the king |  | Jose |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **forget** | past | Jose |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** | to-infinitive | Jose *not said here* |  |  |  |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **hear** | gerund | Jose *not said here* | a horse talk |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus |

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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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