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title: After the eldest Stalo has cooked and eaten a fresh supper, he will… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After the eldest Stalo has cooked and eaten a fresh supper, he will go to bed and sleep so soundly that not even a witch could wake him. Who acts: Stalo, witch. 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 9

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After the eldest Stalo has cooked and eaten a fresh supper, he will go to bed and sleep so soundly that not even a witch could wake him.

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**Who acts:** Stalo, witch · **What happens:** cook, eat, go, wake · **To what, where:** eldest Stalo, fresh supper, bed, Stalo

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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, witch), 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:pg3027:36:9
# text = After the eldest Stalo has cooked and eaten a fresh supper, he will go to bed and sleep so soundly that not even a witch could wake him.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | present · perfect · passive |  | the eldest Stalo |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | participle |  | a fresh supper |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | future | Stalo |  |  | bed and sleep |  | soundly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **wake** | could | a witch | Stalo |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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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