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title: But one youth always lingered longer than the rest, and night would… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But one youth always lingered longer than the rest, and night would still see him engaged in the search, though his clothes stuck to his skin and his teeth chattered. Who acts: man, clothes. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 84

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But one youth always lingered longer than the rest, and night would still see him engaged in the search, though his clothes stuck to his skin and his teeth chattered.

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**Who acts:** man, clothes · **What happens:** linger, see, engage, stick, chatter · **To what, where:** one youth, man, search, clothes

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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 (man, clothes), 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:pg3027:37:84
# text = But one youth always lingered longer than the rest, and night would still see him engaged in the search, though his clothes stuck to his skin and his teeth chattered.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	lingered	linger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	32	nsubj	_	_
25	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
32	chattered	chatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **linger** | participle · passive |  | one youth |  |  |  | always, long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | would |  | man |  |  | still; night |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **engage** | participle | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the search *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in search=Goal |
| 4 | **stick** | participle |  | man's clothes and man's teeth *not said here* |  |  |  | to man's skin | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to skin=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **chatter** | past | man's clothes and man's teeth |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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