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title: A boy who had met him hastened to tell the bailiff that his enemy wa… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy who had met him hastened to tell the bailiff that his enemy was only a few miles off; and the bailiff, disguising himself as a Stalo, or ogre, called his son and his dog and rowed away across the fiord to the place where the boy had met Andras. Who acts: boy, bailiff. A sentence of «The Orange
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 84

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A boy who had met him hastened to tell the bailiff that his enemy was only a few miles off; and the bailiff, disguising himself as a Stalo, or ogre, called his son and his dog and rowed away across the fiord to the place where the boy had met Andras.

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**Who acts:** boy, bailiff · **What happens:** meet, hasten, tell, be, disguise, call · **To what, where:** boy, bailiff, ogre, son, fiord, Andras · **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 (boy, bailiff), 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:pg3027:36:84
# text = A boy who had met him hastened to tell the bailiff that his enemy was only a few miles off; and the bailiff, disguising himself as a Stalo, or ogre, called his son and his dog and rowed away across the fiord to the place where the boy had met Andras.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	off	off	ADV	RB	_	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	disguising	disguise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	rowed	row	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
43	away	away	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	across	across	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	fiord	fiord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
50	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	54	advmod	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
53	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	49	acl:relcl	_	_
55	Andras	Andras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past · perfect | a boy | boy |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **hasten** | participle | a boy | the bailiff or ogre and bailiff's dog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | a boy *not said here* | the bailiff |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bailiff=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | past | the bailiff |  |  |  |  | a few miles *obl:unmarked*; off *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **disguise** | gerund | the bailiff or ogre and bailiff's dog *not said here* | boy |  |  |  | as a Stalo | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination |
| 6 | **call** | participle |  | ogre *not said here* | bailiff's son |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient |
| 7 | **row away** | past | a boy *not said here* |  |  | the fiord |  | to the place; away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across fiord=Trajectory |
| 8 | **meet** | past · perfect | the boy | Andras |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent andras=Co-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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