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title: On a morning when the leaves were yellow in the trees of the glen, I… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On a morning when the leaves were yellow in the trees of the glen, Ian slung his bow over his shoulder, and filling his quiver with arrows, went on to the hill in search of game. Who acts: leaves, Ian. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree an
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 28

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On a morning when the leaves were yellow in the trees of the glen, Ian slung his bow over his shoulder, and filling his quiver with arrows, went on to the hill in search of game.

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**Who acts:** leaves, Ian · **What happens:** be, sling, fill, go on, quiver, search · **To what, where:** trees, bow, shoulder, quiver, game

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaves, Ian), 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:pg3027:7:28
# text = On a morning when the leaves were yellow in the trees of the glen, Ian slung his bow over his shoulder, and filling his quiver with arrows, went on to the hill in search of game.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	glen	glen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	slung	sling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	quiver	quiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
32	on	on	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the leaves |  |  | the trees of the glen |  | yellow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sling** | past | Ian | Ian's bow |  | Ian's shoulder | morning |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bow=Theme over shoulder=Destination |
| 3 | **fill** | gerund | Ian *not said here* | Ian's quiver |  |  |  | with arrows | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent quiver=Patient with arrow=Instrument |
| 4 | **go on** | past | Ian *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the hill in search of game | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **quiver** |  | Ian |  |  |  |  |  | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **search** |  |  | game |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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