--- title: He was carried, unconscious, to the side of his daughter, who had fa… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He was carried, unconscious, to the side of his daughter, who had fainted with terror on seeing her father disappear below the surface, and together they were place in a coach and driven to the palace, where the best doctors in the city were awaiting their arrival. Who acts: daughter, fathers, best --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/) / 69 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 69 He was carried, unconscious, to the side of his daughter, who had fainted with terror on seeing her father disappear below the surface, and together they were place in a coach and driven to the palace, where the best doctors in the city were awaiting their arrival. **Who acts:** daughter, fathers, best doctors, doctors · **What happens:** carry, faint, see, disappear, be, drive · **To what, where:** swimmer, father, surface, place, coach, palace 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 (daughter, fathers, best doctors, doctors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:37:69 # text = He was carried, unconscious, to the side of his daughter, who had fainted with terror on seeing her father disappear below the surface, and together they were place in a coach and driven to the palace, where the best doctors in the city were awaiting their arrival. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 unconscious unconscious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 fainted faint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 on on SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 disappear disappear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 24 below below ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 together together ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 driven drive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 42 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 50 advmod _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 45 amod _ _ 45 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nsubj _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 49 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 awaiting await VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 acl:relcl _ _ 51 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 arrival arrival NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | past · passive | | swimmer | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **faint** | past · perfect | swimmer's daughter | | | | | with terror | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **see** | gerund | swimmer's daughter *not said here* | daughter's father | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | | 4 | **disappear** | present | | | | the surface | | to the side of swimmer's daughter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | past | fathers *= father* | place | | a coach | | together *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **drive** | participle | | | | the palace | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to palace=Trajectory | | 7 | **await** | past · progressive | the best doctors in the city | doctors's arrival | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **arrive** | | doctors *= doctor* | | | | | | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/70/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/)