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title: And the worst of it was that, with so many people about, Gudu could… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the worst of it was that, with so many people about, Gudu could not take the nuts from him. Who acts: portion, many people. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 5

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And the worst of it was that, with so many people about, Gudu could not take the nuts from him.

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**Who acts:** portion, many people · **What happens:** be, not take · **To what, where:** nuts

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (portion, many 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:pg3027:4:5
# text = And the worst of it was that, with so many people about, Gudu could not take the nuts from him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | portion |  |  |  |  | of that | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **take** | could | many people  Gudu | the nuts |  |  |  | from Gudu | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent nut=Theme from he=Initial\_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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