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title: So next day they arose as early as the birds and stole downstairs wi… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So next day they arose as early as the birds and stole downstairs without anybody hearing them. Who acts: children. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 110

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So next day they arose as early as the birds and stole downstairs without anybody hearing them.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** arise, steal, hear · **To what, where:** children

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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 (children), 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:pg3027:32:110
# text = So next day they arose as early as the birds and stole downstairs without anybody hearing them.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obl	_	_
16	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  | day | as the birds; early *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **steal** | past | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without anybody; downstairs *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | gerund |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=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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