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title: When the princess and Hans had given up hope, and cast themselves do… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 113

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When the princess and Hans had given up hope, and cast themselves down on the ground to die, they fell down this hole, and right through the earth as well, and at last they tumbled into a castle built of pure gold at the other side of the world, and there they lived happily.

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**Who acts:** you, people · **What happens:** give up, cast down, die, fall down, tumble, build · **To what, where:** princess, people, ground, hole, earth, last

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people), 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:pg3027:39:113
# text = When the princess and Hans had given up hope, and cast themselves down on the ground to die, they fell down this hole, and right through the earth as well, and at last they tumbled into a castle built of pure gold at the other side of the world, and there they lived happily.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	cast	cast	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	right	right	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	31	advmod	_	_
33	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	obl	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	58	expl	_	_
57	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
59	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | past · perfect · passive |  | the princess and Hans |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cast down** | imperative | you *not said here* | people |  | the ground |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 3 | **die** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **fall down** | past | people | this hole |  | the earth |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through earth=Location |
| 5 | **tumble** | past | people |  |  | last |  | into a castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **build** | participle |  | a castle *not said here* |  | the other side of the world |  | of pure gold | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **live** | past | people |  |  | there |  | happily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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