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title: For two years everything went smoothly at court, and to king Balanci… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For two years everything went smoothly at court, and to king Balancin and his daughter the sun no sooner rose than it seemed time for it to set. Who acts: everything, it, escort. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 47

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For two years everything went smoothly at court, and to king Balancin and his daughter the sun no sooner rose than it seemed time for it to set.

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**Who acts:** everything, it, escort · **What happens:** go, rise, seem, set · **To what, where:** court, 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 (everything, it, escort), 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:pg3027:37:47
# text = For two years everything went smoothly at court, and to king Balancin and his daughter the sun no sooner rose than it seemed time for it to set.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Balancin	Balancin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | everything |  |  | court | year | smoothly *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at court=Location |
| 2 | **rise** | past | everything *not said here* |  | Balancin  king  the sun and king's daughter |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  | time |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **set** | to-infinitive | escort |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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