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title: But although the boy had accomplished much, something very difficult… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But although the boy had accomplished much, something very difficult yet remained, and that was how to carry the Bird of Truth to the king without her being seized by the wicked courtiers, who would be ruined by the discovery of their plot. Who acts: something, that, wicked courtiers, discovery. A s
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 100

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But although the boy had accomplished much, something very difficult yet remained, and that was how to carry the Bird of Truth to the king without her being seized by the wicked courtiers, who would be ruined by the discovery of their plot.

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**Who acts:** something, that, wicked courtiers, discovery, birds · **What happens:** accomplish, remain, be, seize, ruin, discover · **To what, where:** boy, wicked courtiers, plot

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, that, wicked courtiers, discovery), 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:pg3027:33:100
# text = But although the boy had accomplished much, something very difficult yet remained, and that was how to carry the Bird of Truth to the king without her being seized by the wicked courtiers, who would be ruined by the discovery of their plot.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obl:agent	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Truth	Truth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accomplish** | past · perfect · passive | something | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **remain** | participle | something *not said here* |  |  |  | yet |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | to the king; carry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **seize** | gerund · passive | the wicked courtiers |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ruin** | would · passive | the discovery of birds's plot | the wicked courtiers |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 6 | **discover** |  |  | birds's plot |  |  |  |  | nom discovery «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **plot** |  | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  |  | nom plot «cognition transitive»: poss=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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