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title: In about half an hour the dogs grew tired of barking, or perhaps the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In about half an hour the dogs grew tired of barking, or perhaps the bacon was eaten up and there was no smell to excite them. Who acts: dogs, smell. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 107

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In about half an hour the dogs grew tired of barking, or perhaps the bacon was eaten up and there was no smell to excite them.

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**Who acts:** dogs, smell · **What happens:** grow, bark, eat up, be, excite · **To what, where:** bacon, dogs

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, smell), 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:pg3027:6:107
# text = In about half an hour the dogs grew tired of barking, or perhaps the bacon was eaten up and there was no smell to excite them.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	5	det:predet	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bacon	bacon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	excite	excite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the dogs |  |  |  | hour | tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bark** | gerund | the dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat up** | past · passive |  | the bacon |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **be** | past | no smell |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **excite** | to-infinitive | no smell *not said here* | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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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