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title: The real truth was that, on the morning when the princess had walked… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The real truth was that, on the morning when the princess had walked through the streets before making holiday on the river Gilguerillo had seen her from his window, and had straightway fallen in love with her. Who acts: real truth, princess, Gilguerillo. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by And
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 35

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The real truth was that, on the morning when the princess had walked through the streets before making holiday on the river Gilguerillo had seen her from his window, and had straightway fallen in love with her.

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**Who acts:** real truth, princess, Gilguerillo · **What happens:** be, walk, make, see, fall · **To what, where:** streets, holiday, river, princess, window, love

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (real truth, princess, Gilguerillo), 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:pg3027:38:35
# text = The real truth was that, on the morning when the princess had walked through the streets before making holiday on the river Gilguerillo had seen her from his window, and had straightway fallen in love with her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	Gilguerillo	Gilguerillo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the real truth |  |  |  | on the morning |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | past · perfect | the princess |  |  | the streets |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | the princess *not said here* | holiday |  | the river |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset holiday=Product |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect | Gilguerillo | princess |  | Gilguerillo's window |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 5 | **fall** | past · perfect |  |  |  | love |  | with princess | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |

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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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