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title: The bailiff turned red with anger at his rival's scornful words, and… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The bailiff turned red with anger at his rival's scornful words, and answered quickly: 'Next time you will have something harder to do.' Who acts: bailiff, you, something, rival. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 80

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The bailiff turned red with anger at his rival's scornful words, and answered quickly: 'Next time you will have something harder to do.'

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**Who acts:** bailiff, you, something, rival · **What happens:** turn, answer, have, do, word · **To what, where:** scornful words, something

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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, you, something, rival), 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:pg3027:36:80
# text = The bailiff turned red with anger at his rival's scornful words, and answered quickly: 'Next time you will have something harder to do.'
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	rival	rival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	scornful	scornful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the bailiff |  |  | bailiff's rival's scornful words |  | with anger; red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at word=Trajectory |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | future | you | something |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **word** |  | bailiff's rival |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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