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title: Instead of going on his work, the man turned back and took the bird… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead of going on his work, the man turned back and took the bird to his children, who gave him a warm mess to eat and put him in a box by the fire, and when they came back from school he was much more comfortable than he had been since he had left the old woman's cottage. Who acts: man, children,
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 93

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Instead of going on his work, the man turned back and took the bird to his children, who gave him a warm mess to eat and put him in a box by the fire, and when they came back from school he was much more comfortable than he had been since he had left the old woman's cottage.

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**Who acts:** man, children, bones, fortune · **What happens:** go on, turn back, take, give, eat, put · **To what, where:** work, bird, children, warm mess, fortune, box

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, children, bones, fortune), 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:pg3027:9:93
# text = Instead of going on his work, the man turned back and took the bird to his children, who gave him a warm mess to eat and put him in a box by the fire, and when they came back from school he was much more comfortable than he had been since he had left the old woman's cottage.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	3	mark	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
39	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	_
42	back	back	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
47	much	much	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	49	advmod	_	_
49	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
50	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
53	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	57	aux:pass	_	_
54	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	advcl	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	's	's	PART	POS	_	60	case	_	_
62	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | gerund | the man *not said here* | fortune's work |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn back** | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | past | the man *not said here* | the bird | fortune's children |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bird=Theme to child=Destination |
| 4 | **give** | past | fortune's children | a warm mess | fortune |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient mess=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | fortune's children *not said here* | a warm mess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **put** | infinitive | fortune's children *not said here* | fortune |  | a box |  | by the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in box=Destination |
| 7 | **come back** | past | bones *= bone* |  |  | school |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from school=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **is** | past | fortune |  |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | fortune |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme cottage=Attribute |
| 10 | **work** |  | fortune |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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