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title: Of late it had been whispered from one to another that the three you… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Of late it had been whispered from one to another that the three young Stalos were to be seen on the pastures, but the Sodno brothers did not disturb themselves, the danger seemed too far away. Who acts: Sodno brothers, danger. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 99

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Of late it had been whispered from one to another that the three young Stalos were to be seen on the pastures, but the Sodno brothers did not disturb themselves, the danger seemed too far away.

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**Who acts:** Sodno brothers, danger · **What happens:** whisper, see, not disturb, seem · **To what, where:** reindeer, three young Stalos, pastures

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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 (Sodno brothers, danger), 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:pg3027:35:99
# text = Of late it had been whispered from one to another that the three young Stalos were to be seen on the pastures, but the Sodno brothers did not disturb themselves, the danger seemed too far away.
1	Of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	advcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Stalos	Stalos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pastures	pasture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Sodno	Sodno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
36	too	too	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
38	away	away	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | reindeer |  |  |  | from one to another | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | past · passive |  | the three young Stalos |  | the pastures |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **disturb** | past · do-support | the Sodno brothers | pastures *= pasture* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer |
| 4 | **seem** | past | the danger |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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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