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title: And the wedding guests said that the knight had spoken well; and the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the wedding guests said that the knight had spoken well; and the two elder brothers were fain to leave the country, for no one would converse with them. Who acts: wedding guests, two elder brothers, one. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency t
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 43

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And the wedding guests said that the knight had spoken well; and the two elder brothers were fain to leave the country, for no one would converse with them.

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**Who acts:** wedding guests, two elder brothers, one · **What happens:** say, speak, be, leave, converse · **To what, where:** knight, country · **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 (wedding guests, two elder brothers, one), 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:pg3027:6:43
# text = And the wedding guests said that the knight had spoken well; and the two elder brothers were fain to leave the country, for no one would converse with them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	converse	converse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wedding guests |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | the knight |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the two elder brothers |  |  |  |  | fain *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive | the two elder brothers *not said here* | the country |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
| 5 | **converse** *speech: other* | would | no one |  |  |  |  | with brothers *= brother* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-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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