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title: But the doctor said he would accept nothing more than had been agree… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the doctor said he would accept nothing more than had been agreed on, and must return at once to his own country, where many sick people were awaiting him. Who acts: doctor, king, many sick people. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree a
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 45

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But the doctor said he would accept nothing more than had been agreed on, and must return at once to his own country, where many sick people were awaiting him.

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**Who acts:** doctor, king, many sick people · **What happens:** say, accept, agree on, return, await · **To what, where:** nothing, king · **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 (doctor, king, many sick people), 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:pg3027:37:45
# text = But the doctor said he would accept nothing more than had been agreed on, and must return at once to his own country, where many sick people were awaiting him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obj	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	13	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **accept** | would | king | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 3 | **agree on** *speech: agree* | past · perfect · passive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **return** | must |  |  |  |  |  | to king's own country *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result |
| 5 | **await** | past · progressive | many sick people | king |  |  |  |  | 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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