--- title: It did not take the orphans long to notice that the boys did not lik… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It did not take the orphans long to notice that the boys did not like them, and were always playing tricks on them, so they used to go away by themselves and spend whole hours by the banks of the river. Who acts: It, boys, boy. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/102/) [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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/) / 102 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 102 It did not take the orphans long to notice that the boys did not like them, and were always playing tricks on them, so they used to go away by themselves and spend whole hours by the banks of the river. **Who acts:** It, boys, boy · **What happens:** not take, notice, not like, play, use, go away · **To what, where:** orphans, tricks · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, boys, boy), 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:pg3027:32:102 # text = It did not take the orphans long to notice that the boys did not like them, and were always playing tricks on them, so they used to go away by themselves and spend whole hours by the banks of the river. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 orphans orphan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 21 advmod _ _ 21 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 22 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 away away ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 30 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 spend spend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 36 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **take** | past · do-support | It | | the orphans | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument orphan=Destination | | 2 | **notice** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | the boys | orphans *= orphan* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | | 4 | **play** | past · progressive | | tricks | | | | on boy; always *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme | | 5 | **use** | past | boy | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **go away** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | | | | | by boy; away *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location | | 7 | **spend** | present | boy *not said here* | | | | hour | by the banks of the river | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/103/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/)