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title: The king's wounds were not very severe, but his face and hands were… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king's wounds were not very severe, but his face and hands were cut and torn, while his feet were in a worse plight still, for, instead of proper hunting boots, he only wore sandals, to enable him to run more swiftly. Who acts: wounds, feet, Balancin, king. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 25

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The king's wounds were not very severe, but his face and hands were cut and torn, while his feet were in a worse plight still, for, instead of proper hunting boots, he only wore sandals, to enable him to run more swiftly.

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**Who acts:** wounds, feet, Balancin, king · **What happens:** not be, cut, tear, be, wear, enable · **To what, where:** face, worse plight, sandals, Balancin

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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 (wounds, feet, Balancin, king), 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:pg3027:37:25
# text = The king's wounds were not very severe, but his face and hands were cut and torn, while his feet were in a worse plight still, for, instead of proper hunting boots, he only wore sandals, to enable him to run more swiftly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	plight	plight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
28	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	36	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	only	only	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
41	sandals	sandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	enable	enable	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
48	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	49	advmod	_	_
49	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the king's wounds |  |  |  |  | severe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut** | past · passive |  | Balancin's face and hands |  |  | still | for proper hunting boots | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for boot=Asset |
| 3 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | Balancin's feet |  |  | a worse plight |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wear** | past | Balancin | sandals |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sandal=Theme |
| 6 | **enable** | to-infinitive | Balancin *not said here* | Balancin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **run** | to-infinitive | Balancin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **wound** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state 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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