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title: The wind being favourable they were soon out of hearing of the gener… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wind being favourable they were soon out of hearing of the general howl of regret from the whole army, which had been given by order of the King, as a great compliment, and it was not long before the land was entirely lost to view. Who acts: wind, pages, order, regret. A sentence of «The Green F
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 29

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The wind being favourable they were soon out of hearing of the general howl of regret from the whole army, which had been given by order of the King, as a great compliment, and it was not long before the land was entirely lost to view.

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**Who acts:** wind, pages, order, regret · **What happens:** be, give, not be, lose, view, howl · **To what, where:** hearing, whole army, land, King

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, pages, order, regret), 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:pg7277:15:29
# text = The wind being favourable they were soon out of hearing of the general howl of regret from the whole army, which had been given by order of the King, as a great compliment, and it was not long before the land was entirely lost to view.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	favourable	favourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	howl	howl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	regret	regret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
42	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
46	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	advcl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	view	view	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | the wind |  |  |  |  | favourable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | pages *= page* |  |  | hearing |  | of the general howl of regret from the whole army; soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past · perfect · passive | order of the King | the whole army |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | wind |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lose** | past · passive |  | the land |  |  |  | entirely *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **view** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **howl** |  | regret from the whole army |  |  |  |  |  | nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 8 | **order** |  |  | the King |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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