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title: Of course the result of the proclamation was that the river banks be… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course the result of the proclamation was that the river banks became more crowded than before; for all the princess's suitors from distant lands flocked to the spot, each hoping that he might be the lucky finder. Who acts: river banks, princess suitors, each, suitor. A sentence of «The Orange Fa
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 82

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Of course the result of the proclamation was that the river banks became more crowded than before; for all the princess's suitors from distant lands flocked to the spot, each hoping that he might be the lucky finder.

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**Who acts:** river banks, princess suitors, each, suitor · **What happens:** be, flock, hope, result · **To what, where:** proclamation, lucky finder

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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 (river banks, princess suitors, each, suitor), 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:pg3027:37:82
# text = Of course the result of the proclamation was that the river banks became more crowded than before; for all the princess's suitors from distant lands flocked to the spot, each hoping that he might be the lucky finder.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	before	before	ADV	RB	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	suitors	suitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	flocked	flock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	nsubj	_	_
34	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	finder	finder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the river banks | the proclamation *not said here* |  |  |  | become, crowded *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **flock** | past | princess suitors from distant lands |  |  |  |  | of the result of the proclamation; to the spot | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hope** | gerund | each |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is a** | might | suitor | the lucky finder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **result** |  |  | the proclamation |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon 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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