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title: And in order that no time should be lost it was further agreed that… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And in order that no time should be lost it was further agreed that each wolf should bear the invitations to the guests that lived nearest to him. Who acts: wolf, guests. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 42

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And in order that no time should be lost it was further agreed that each wolf should bear the invitations to the guests that lived nearest to him.

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**Who acts:** wolf, guests · **What happens:** lose, agree, bear, live · **To what, where:** order, invitations

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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 (wolf, guests), 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:pg3027:34:42
# text = And in order that no time should be lost it was further agreed that each wolf should bear the invitations to the guests that lived nearest to him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	further	further	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	invitations	invitation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | should · passive |  | order *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · passive |  | order |  | order |  | further *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **bear** | should | each wolf | the invitations |  |  |  | to the guests | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Patient |
| 4 | **live** | past | the guests |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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