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title: Then they went back to worry the reindeer, and the noise became as g… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they went back to worry the reindeer, and the noise became as great as ever, and a second time the Stalo awoke. Who acts: bed, noise, Stalo. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 18

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Then they went back to worry the reindeer, and the noise became as great as ever, and a second time the Stalo awoke.

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**Who acts:** bed, noise, Stalo · **What happens:** go back, worry, become, awake · **To what, where:** reindeer

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed, noise, 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:pg3027:36:18
# text = Then they went back to worry the reindeer, and the noise became as great as ever, and a second time the Stalo awoke.
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	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	worry	worry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | bed |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **worry** | to-infinitive | bed *not said here* | the reindeer |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus reindeer=Experiencer |
| 3 | **become** | past | the noise |  |  |  |  | great *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **awake** | past | the Stalo |  |  |  | time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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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