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title: At the very end, before the people went home, every poor person shou… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the very end, before the people went home, every poor person should be given a loaf of bread and every girl who was to be married within the year a new dress. Who acts: people. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 51

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At the very end, before the people went home, every poor person should be given a loaf of bread and every girl who was to be married within the year a new dress.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** go, give, marry · **To what, where:** poor person, end, girl

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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 (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:pg3027:37:51
# text = At the very end, before the people went home, every poor person should be given a loaf of bread and every girl who was to be married within the year a new dress.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	within	within	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the people |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | should · passive |  | every poor person |  |  | at the end |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient loaf=Theme at end=Asset |
| 3 | **marry** | past · passive |  | every girl |  |  | year |  | 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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