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title: That is why no REAL Stalo is ever seen without his dog; but the bail… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That is why no REAL Stalo is ever seen without his dog; but the bailiff, being only half a Stalo, had forgotten him, when he went to the little lakes in search of Andras. Who acts: That, dog, bailiff, Stalo. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 7

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That is why no REAL Stalo is ever seen without his dog; but the bailiff, being only half a Stalo, had forgotten him, when he went to the little lakes in search of Andras.

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**Who acts:** That, dog, bailiff, Stalo · **What happens:** be, see, forget, go, search · **To what, where:** REAL Stalo, Stalo, search, Andras

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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 (That, dog, bailiff, Stalo), 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:pg3027:37:7
# text = That is why no REAL Stalo is ever seen without his dog; but the bailiff, being only half a Stalo, had forgotten him, when he went to the little lakes in search of Andras.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	REAL	REAL	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl:relcl	_	_
10	without	without	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	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Andras	Andras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present · passive | Stalo's dog | no REAL Stalo |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund |  | half Stalo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **forget** | past · perfect | the bailiff | Stalo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | past | Stalo |  |  | search of Andras |  | to the little lakes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **search** |  |  | Andras |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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