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title: Then they started off to the place where the goats and deer were to… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they started off to the place where the goats and deer were to be found in the greatest numbers, and soon had killed as many as they wanted. Who acts: Flames. 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 92

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Then they started off to the place where the goats and deer were to be found in the greatest numbers, and soon had killed as many as they wanted.

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**Who acts:** Flames · **What happens:** start off, find, kill, want · **To what, where:** goats, greatest numbers, many

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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 (Flames), 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:pg3027:34:92
# text = Then they started off to the place where the goats and deer were to be found in the greatest numbers, and soon had killed as many as they wanted.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start off** | past | Flames *= flame* |  |  |  | then | to the place | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **find** | past · passive | Flames *= flame* *not said here* | the goats and deer |  | the greatest numbers |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **kill** | past · perfect | Flames *= flame* *not said here* | many |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme |
| 4 | **want** | past | Flames *= flame* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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