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title: Next to his daughter, Balancin loved hunting, and it was his custom… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next to his daughter, Balancin loved hunting, and it was his custom to spend several mornings every week chasing the boars which abounded in the mountains a few miles from the city. Who acts: Balancin, hunting, boars. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its d
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 23

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Next to his daughter, Balancin loved hunting, and it was his custom to spend several mornings every week chasing the boars which abounded in the mountains a few miles from the city.

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**Who acts:** Balancin, hunting, boars · **What happens:** love, be, spend, chase, abound · **To what, where:** hunting, custom, boars, few miles, mountains

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balancin, hunting, boars), 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:pg3027:37:23
# text = Next to his daughter, Balancin loved hunting, and it was his custom to spend several mornings every week chasing the boars which abounded in the mountains a few miles from the city.
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	Balancin	Balancin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	mornings	morning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	boars	boar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	abounded	abound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Balancin | hunting |  |  |  | next *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunting=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | hunting | Balancin's custom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spend** | to-infinitive | Balancin *not said here* |  |  |  | morning; week |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **chase** | gerund | Balancin *not said here* | the boars |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme |
| 5 | **abound** | past | the boars | a few miles |  | the mountains |  | from the city | tree rules |

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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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