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title: There could be but one opinion as to that, everyone thought, and whe… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There could be but one opinion as to that, everyone thought, and when Halvor heard what they said he was not long in flinging off his beggar’s rags and arraying himself as a bridegroom. Who acts: one opinion, everyone, Halvor, girls. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Cas
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 176

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There could be but one opinion as to that, everyone thought, and when Halvor heard what they said he was not long in flinging off his beggar’s rags and arraying himself as a bridegroom.

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**Who acts:** one opinion, everyone, Halvor, girls · **What happens:** be, think, hear, say, not be, fling off · **To what, where:** rags, Halvor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one opinion, everyone, Halvor, girls), 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:pg540:6:176
# text = There could be but one opinion as to that, everyone thought, and when Halvor heard what they said he was not long in flinging off his beggar’s rags and arraying himself as a bridegroom.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
25	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	flinging	fling	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	arraying	array	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
34	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **can** | could | one opinion as that |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past | Halvor |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | Halvor |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fling off** | gerund | girls *= girl* *not said here* | Halvor's beggar's rags |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rag=Theme |
| 7 | **array** | gerund | girls *= girl* *not said here* | Halvor |  |  |  | as a bridegroom | tree rules |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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