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title: Of course the news soon spread through the city, and men and women n… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course the news soon spread through the city, and men and women never tired of calling Gilguerillo an impostor, and prophesying that the end of the three days would see him in prison, if not on the scaffold. Who acts: end. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, wi
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 69

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Of course the news soon spread through the city, and men and women never tired of calling Gilguerillo an impostor, and prophesying that the end of the three days would see him in prison, if not on the scaffold.

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**Who acts:** end · **What happens:** spread, call, prophesy, see · **To what, where:** city, Gilguerillo, prison · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (end), 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:pg3027:38:69
# text = Of course the news soon spread through the city, and men and women never tired of calling Gilguerillo an impostor, and prophesying that the end of the three days would see him in prison, if not on the scaffold.
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	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	Gilguerillo	Gilguerillo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	impostor	impostor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	prophesying	prophesy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	scaffold	scaffold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | present |  |  |  | the city |  | of the news; soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through city=Location |
| 2 | **call** | gerund |  | Gilguerillo |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent gilguerillo=Theme impostor=Result |
| 3 | **prophesy** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | would | the end of the three days | Gilguerillo |  | prison |  | on the scaffold | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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