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title: He next washed himself thoroughly, and dressed himself, in his best… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 61

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He next washed himself thoroughly, and dressed himself, in his best clothes, and putting the flask in his pocket, set out for the palace, and begged to see the king without delay.

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** wash, dress, put, set out, beg, see · **To what, where:** sun, best clothes, flask, pocket, king

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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 (sun), 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:pg3027:38:61
# text = He next washed himself thoroughly, and dressed himself, in his best clothes, and putting the flask in his pocket, set out for the palace, and begged to see the king without delay.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	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	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	begged	beg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	without	without	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | past | sun | sun |  |  |  | next, thoroughly *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **dress** | past | sun *not said here* | sun |  | sun's best clothes |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | gerund | sun *not said here* | the flask |  | sun's pocket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flask=Theme in pocket=Destination |
| 4 | **set out** | participle | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | participle | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sun *not said here* | the king |  |  |  | without delay | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus |

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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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