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title: The servant was filled with fear at her words, and hastened and told… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The servant was filled with fear at her words, and hastened and told the smith, who ran as fast as he could to seek for Ian. Who acts: smith. 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 40

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The servant was filled with fear at her words, and hastened and told the smith, who ran as fast as he could to seek for Ian.

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**Who acts:** smith · **What happens:** fill, hasten, tell, run, seek, word · **To what, where:** servant, smith · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (smith), 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:pg3027:6:40
# text = The servant was filled with fear at her words, and hastened and told the smith, who ran as fast as he could to seek for Ian.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past · passive |  | the servant |  |  |  | with fear at smith's words | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fear=Instrument |
| 2 | **hasten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  | the smith |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent smith=Recipient |
| 4 | **run** | past | the smith |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **seek** | to-infinitive | the smith *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Ian | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for ian=Theme |
| 6 | **word** |  | smith |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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