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title: However, the dreaded signs were absent, and his heart bounded at the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the dreaded signs were absent, and his heart bounded at the thought that the princess was within his reach. Who acts: dreaded signs, heart, princess. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 48

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However, the dreaded signs were absent, and his heart bounded at the thought that the princess was within his reach.

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**Who acts:** dreaded signs, heart, princess · **What happens:** dread, be, bound · **To what, where:** thought

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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 (dreaded signs, heart, princess), 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:pg3027:38:48
# text = However, the dreaded signs were absent, and his heart bounded at the thought that the princess was within his reach.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dreaded	dread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bounded	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	within	within	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dread** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | the dreaded signs |  |  |  |  | absent, however *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bound** | participle | Gilguerillo's heart |  |  | the thought |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thought=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is** | past | the princess | the thought *not said here* |  |  |  | within Gilguerillo's reach | tree rules |

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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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