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title: But he did his duties so well that his master soon took notice of hi… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But he did his duties so well that his master soon took notice of him, and in a short time he rose to be a gentleman of the bedchamber. Who acts: husband, master. 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 96

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But he did his duties so well that his master soon took notice of him, and in a short time he rose to be a gentleman of the bedchamber.

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**Who acts:** husband, master · **What happens:** do, take, rise, be, notice · **To what, where:** duties, notice, gentleman, husband

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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 (husband, master), 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:pg3027:31:96
# text = But he did his duties so well that his master soon took notice of him, and in a short time he rose to be a gentleman of the bedchamber.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bedchamber	bedchamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | husband | husband's duties |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
| 2 | **take** | past | husband's master | notice of husband |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 3 | **rise** | past | husband |  |  |  | time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | husband *not said here* | a gentleman |  |  |  | of the bedchamber | tree rules |
| 5 | **notice** |  |  | husband |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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