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title: But their manners were so good that no one would ever had guessed th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But their manners were so good that no one would ever had guessed that. Who acts: manners. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 16

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But their manners were so good that no one would ever had guessed that.

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**Who acts:** manners · **What happens:** be, guess · **To what, where:** one

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manners), 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:pg3027:34:16
# text = But their manners were so good that no one would ever had guessed that.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	guessed	guess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | sorts's manners |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **guess** | would · perfect · passive |  | no one |  |  | ever |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme that=Eventuality |

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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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