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title: She would have a merry-making such as never had been seen before, an… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She would have a merry-making such as never had been seen before, and in the evening, when they were tired of sailing and rowing, there should be music and dancing, plays and fireworks. Who acts: Diamantina, tastes. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dep
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 50

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She would have a merry-making such as never had been seen before, and in the evening, when they were tired of sailing and rowing, there should be music and dancing, plays and fireworks.

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**Who acts:** Diamantina, tastes · **What happens:** have, make, not see, be, sail, row · **To what, where:** tired music

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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 (Diamantina, tastes), 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:pg3027:37:50
# text = She would have a merry-making such as never had been seen before, and in the evening, when they were tired of sailing and rowing, there should be music and dancing, plays and fireworks.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	7	xcomp	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
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	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
14	before	before	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	rowing	row	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	plays	play	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | Diamantina |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | Diamantina *not said here* |  |  |  |  | such *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **not** **see** | past · perfect · passive | Diamantina *not said here* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **is** | past | tastes *= taste* |  |  |  | evening | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sail** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **row** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | infinitive |  | tired music and dancing and plays and fireworks |  |  |  |  | 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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