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title: And when he found him and brought him into the castle, the girl was… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he found him and brought him into the castle, the girl was first struck dumb with joy; then she declared that she would marry nobody else. Who acts: Ian, 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 41

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And when he found him and brought him into the castle, the girl was first struck dumb with joy; then she declared that she would marry nobody else.

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**Who acts:** Ian, smith · **What happens:** find, bring, strike, declare, marry · **To what, where:** man, Ian, castle, girl, nobody

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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 (Ian, 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:pg3027:6:41
# text = And when he found him and brought him into the castle, the girl was first struck dumb with joy; then she declared that she would marry nobody else.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	_
17	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
18	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
29	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	28	obj	_	_
30	else	else	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Ian | man |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** | past |  | Ian |  | the castle |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into castle=Destination |
| 3 | **strike** | past · passive |  | the girl |  |  |  | with joy; dumb, first *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with joy=Instrument |
| 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | smith |  |  |  | then |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **marry** | would | smith | nobody |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Patient |

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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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