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title: The old man and the wife, however, would not go out, but remained in… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old man and the wife, however, would not go out, but remained in the wigwam making bows and arrows. Who acts: old man. 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 88

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The old man and the wife, however, would not go out, but remained in the wigwam making bows and arrows.

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**Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** not go out, remain, make · **To what, where:** wigwam, bows

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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 (old man), 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:pg3027:34:88
# text = The old man and the wife, however, would not go out, but remained in the wigwam making bows and arrows.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go out** | would | the old man and the wife |  |  |  |  | however, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remain** | participle | the old man and the wife *not said here* |  |  | the wigwam |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wigwam=Location |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | the old man and the wife *not said here* | bows and arrows |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bow=Product |

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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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