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title: But this second search was no more fortunate than the first, and at… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But this second search was no more fortunate than the first, and at last the king issued a proclamation that whoever found the missing slipper should be made heir to the crown, and should marry the princess. Who acts: second search, whoever. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Open
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 79

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But this second search was no more fortunate than the first, and at last the king issued a proclamation that whoever found the missing slipper should be made heir to the crown, and should marry the princess.

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**Who acts:** second search, whoever · **What happens:** not be, issue, find, make, marry · **To what, where:** last, proclamation, princess

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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 (second search, whoever), 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:pg3027:37:79
# text = But this second search was no more fortunate than the first, and at last the king issued a proclamation that whoever found the missing slipper should be made heir to the crown, and should marry the princess.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	no	no	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	issued	issue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	_
30	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | this second search |  |  |  |  | than the first; fortunate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **issue** | past |  |  |  | last |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | past | whoever | a proclamation |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme slipper=Attribute |
| 4 | **make** | should · passive |  | a proclamation |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary heir=Product |
| 5 | **marry** | should |  | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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