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title: He wondered where it could be, and who could have moved it, and afte… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He wondered where it could be, and who could have moved it, and after searching through all the rooms, he found it hanging over the kitchen fire. Who acts: Stalo, mantle. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 26

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He wondered where it could be, and who could have moved it, and after searching through all the rooms, he found it hanging over the kitchen fire.

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**Who acts:** Stalo, mantle · **What happens:** wonder, be, move, search, find, hang · **To what, where:** mantle, rooms, kitchen fire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Stalo, mantle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3027:2316`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:36:26
# text = He wondered where it could be, and who could have moved it, and after searching through all the rooms, he found it hanging over the kitchen fire.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	searching	search	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	advcl	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	xcomp	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | Stalo |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **can** | could | mantle |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **move** | could · perfect |  | mantle |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **search** | gerund | Stalo *not said here* |  |  | all rooms |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through room=Location |
| 5 | **find** | past | Stalo | mantle |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 6 | **hang** | gerund | mantle *not said here* |  |  | the kitchen fire |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fire=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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