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title: Meanwhile, his daughter, herself nearly mad with grief, gave orders… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, his daughter, herself nearly mad with grief, gave orders that the white slipper should be sought for far and wide; and so it was, but even the cleverest divers could find no trace of it at the bottom of the river. Who acts: Slipper, cleverest divers. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 71

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Meanwhile, his daughter, herself nearly mad with grief, gave orders that the white slipper should be sought for far and wide; and so it was, but even the cleverest divers could find no trace of it at the bottom of the river.

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**Who acts:** Slipper, cleverest divers · **What happens:** give, seek, be, find · **To what, where:** orders, white slipper, trace, bottom

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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 (Slipper, cleverest divers), 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:pg3027:37:71
# text = Meanwhile, his daughter, herself nearly mad with grief, gave orders that the white slipper should be sought for far and wide; and so it was, but even the cleverest divers could find no trace of it at the bottom of the river.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	conj	_	_
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	cleverest	clever	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
35	divers	diver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
38	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	39	det	_	_
39	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	_
42	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **give** | past |  | orders |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | should · passive |  | the white slipper |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | Slipper |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | could | the cleverest divers | no trace of Slipper |  | the bottom of the river |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent trace=Theme at bottom=Asset |

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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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