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title: The unhappy father searched the country for miles round without bein… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The unhappy father searched the country for miles round without being able to find as much as a shoe or a handkerchief, to show him where they had passed, but at length a little boy came with news that he had seen the Stalo hiding behind a well, near which the children used to play. Who acts: unhapp
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 73

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The unhappy father searched the country for miles round without being able to find as much as a shoe or a handkerchief, to show him where they had passed, but at length a little boy came with news that he had seen the Stalo hiding behind a well, near which the children used to play.

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**Who acts:** unhappy father, little boy, boy, Stalo, children · **What happens:** search, be, find, show, pass, come · **To what, where:** country, much, children, length, Stalo, well · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unhappy father, little boy, boy, Stalo), 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:pg3027:35:73
# text = The unhappy father searched the country for miles round without being able to find as much as a shoe or a handkerchief, to show him where they had passed, but at length a little boy came with news that he had seen the Stalo hiding behind a well, near which the children used to play.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	round	round	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
12	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	acl	_	_
48	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
52	near	near	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	obl	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nsubj	_	_
56	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
58	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | past | the unhappy father | the country |  |  |  | for miles | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent country=Location for mile=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | the unhappy father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | the unhappy father *not said here* | much |  |  |  | as a shoe or a handkerchief | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent much=Theme as shoe=Attribute |
| 4 | **show** | to-infinitive |  |  | country |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 6 | **come** | past | a little boy |  |  | length |  | with news | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
| 7 | **see** | past · perfect | boy | the Stalo |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **hide** | gerund | the Stalo *not said here* |  |  | a well |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind well=Location |
| 9 | **use** | past | the children |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 10 | **play** | to-infinitive | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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