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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 30

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On inquiring, it was found that he never left the walls of his own city, and expected his patients to come to see him; but, by dint of offering a large sum of money, the king persuaded the famous physician to undertake the journey to his own court.

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**Who acts:** land, patients, dint · **What happens:** inquire, find, not leave, expect, come, see · **To what, where:** news, walls, patients, land, large sum, famous physician · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (land, patients, dint), 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:pg3027:37:30
# text = On inquiring, it was found that he never left the walls of his own city, and expected his patients to come to see him; but, by dint of offering a large sum of money, the king persuaded the famous physician to undertake the journey to his own court.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	inquiring	inquire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	dint	dint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	undertake	undertake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	ccomp	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
52	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inquire** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past · passive |  | news |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **leave** | past | land | the walls of land's own city |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Theme |
| 4 | **expect** | past | land *not said here* | land's patients |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | land's patients *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | land's patients *not said here* | land |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 7 | **offer** | gerund | dint *not said here* | a large sum of money |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sum=Theme |
| 8 | **persuade** | past | dint | the famous physician |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent physician=Patient clause=Result |
| 9 | **undertake** | to-infinitive | dint *not said here* | the journey |  |  |  | to land's own court | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality |
| 10 | **sum** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=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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