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title: He ordered his coach to wait at a distance, and desired that I would… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He ordered his coach to wait at a distance, and desired that I would give him an hour’s audience. Who acts: Reldresal, coach, I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 38

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He ordered his coach to wait at a distance, and desired that I would give him an hour’s audience.

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**Who acts:** Reldresal, coach, I · **What happens:** order, wait, desire, give · **To what, where:** coach, audience, Reldresal

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reldresal, coach, I), 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:pg503:45:38
# text = He ordered his coach to wait at a distance, and desired that I would give him an hour’s audience.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | Reldresal | Reldresal's coach |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent coach=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wait** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Reldresal's coach *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a distance | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at distance=Location |
| 3 | **desire** | past | Reldresal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | would | I | a hour's audience | Reldresal |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient audience=Theme |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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