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title: Without waiting for orders, they sat down in the nest and, crossing… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Without waiting for orders, they sat down in the nest and, crossing their legs comfortably, began to prepare the suit of clothes for Bellah. Who acts: orders. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 80

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Without waiting for orders, they sat down in the nest and, crossing their legs comfortably, began to prepare the suit of clothes for Bellah.

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**Who acts:** orders · **What happens:** wait, sit down, cross, begin, prepare · **To what, where:** nest, legs, suit

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (orders), 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:pg3454:34:80
# text = Without waiting for orders, they sat down in the nest and, crossing their legs comfortably, began to prepare the suit of clothes for Bellah.
1	Without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	23	nmod	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund | orders *= order* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for orders | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | orders *= order* |  |  | the nest |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location |
| 3 | **cross** | gerund | orders *= order* *not said here* | orders's legs |  |  |  | comfortably *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 4 | **begin** | past | orders *= order* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **prepare** | to-infinitive | orders *= order* *not said here* | the suit of clothes for Bellah |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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