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title: The boy had waited behind a clump of bushes to see what would happen… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy had waited behind a clump of bushes to see what would happen, and by-and-by he noticed that the Stalo had laid a cunning trap in the path to the well, and that anybody who fell over it would roll into the water and drown there. Who acts: boy, Stalo, anybody. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy B
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 74

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The boy had waited behind a clump of bushes to see what would happen, and by-and-by he noticed that the Stalo had laid a cunning trap in the path to the well, and that anybody who fell over it would roll into the water and drown there.

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**Who acts:** boy, Stalo, anybody · **What happens:** wait, see, happen, notice, lay, fall · **To what, where:** clump, cunning trap, path, well, water · **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 (boy, Stalo, anybody), 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:pg3027:35:74
# text = The boy had waited behind a clump of bushes to see what would happen, and by-and-by he noticed that the Stalo had laid a cunning trap in the path to the well, and that anybody who fell over it would roll into the water and drown there.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clump	clump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	ccomp	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
41	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	47	nsubj	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	over	over	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	_
46	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
48	into	into	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	_
53	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past · perfect | the boy |  |  | a clump of bushes |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind clump=Location |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **notice** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **lay** | past · perfect | the Stalo | a cunning trap |  | the path to the well |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trap=Theme in path=Destination |
| 6 | **fall** | past |  |  |  | well |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over it=Location |
| 7 | **roll** | would | anybody |  |  | the water |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination |
| 8 | **drown** | infinitive | anybody *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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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