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title: The bailiff was delighted at this chance of trying his strength, and… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The bailiff was delighted at this chance of trying his strength, and at once went out to seek Andras and to coax him into giving proof of his vigour. Who acts: bailiff, chance. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 67

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The bailiff was delighted at this chance of trying his strength, and at once went out to seek Andras and to coax him into giving proof of his vigour.

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**Who acts:** bailiff, chance · **What happens:** be, try, go out, seek, coax, give · **To what, where:** chance, strength, Andras, proof, vigour

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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 (bailiff, chance), 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:pg3027:36:67
# text = The bailiff was delighted at this chance of trying his strength, and at once went out to seek Andras and to coax him into giving proof of his vigour.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	obl	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	Andras	Andras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	coax	coax	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
27	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	vigour	vigour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the bailiff |  |  | this chance |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | this chance *not said here* | Andras's strength |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go out** | past | the bailiff *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | the bailiff *not said here* | Andras |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent andras=Theme |
| 5 | **coax** | to-infinitive | the bailiff *not said here* | Andras |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 6 | **give** | gerund | the bailiff *not said here* | proof of Andras's vigour |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proof=Theme |
| 7 | **proof** |  |  | Andras's vigour |  |  |  |  | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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