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title: As the king stepped on board the boat one of the sandals of the whit… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As the king stepped on board the boat one of the sandals of the white slipper, which had got loose, caught in a nail that was sticking out, and caused the king to stumble. Who acts: white slipper, nail. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 58

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As the king stepped on board the boat one of the sandals of the white slipper, which had got loose, caught in a nail that was sticking out, and caused the king to stumble.

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**Who acts:** white slipper, nail · **What happens:** step, get, catch, stick out, cause, stumble · **To what, where:** king, boat, nail

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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 (white slipper, nail), 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:pg3027:37:58
# text = As the king stepped on board the boat one of the sandals of the white slipper, which had got loose, caught in a nail that was sticking out, and caused the king to stumble.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
4	stepped	step	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	board	board	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sandals	sandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	stumble	stumble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | participle |  | the king *not said here* |  | the boat |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on boat=Trajectory |
| 2 | **get** | past · perfect | the white slipper |  |  |  |  | loose *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **catch** | participle | the white slipper *not said here* |  |  | a nail |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stick out** | past · progressive | a nail |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **cause** | past |  | the king |  |  |  | as the king | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition king=Patient |
| 6 | **stumble** | to-infinitive |  | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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