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title: But when they reached a great river the young man did not want the t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when they reached a great river the young man did not want the trouble of carrying his pack any further, and left it on the bank. Who acts: goats, young 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 95

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But when they reached a great river the young man did not want the trouble of carrying his pack any further, and left it on the bank.

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**Who acts:** goats, young man · **What happens:** reach, not want, carry, leave · **To what, where:** great river, trouble, pack, bank

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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 (goats, young 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:pg3027:34:95
# text = But when they reached a great river the young man did not want the trouble of carrying his pack any further, and left it on the bank.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	any	any	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | goats *= goat* | a great river |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | the young man | the trouble |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot trouble=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | the young man *not said here* | man's pack |  |  |  | far *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | past |  | pack |  | the bank |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on bank=Location |

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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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