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title: The King had given orders that they should seek high and low for the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King had given orders that they should seek high and low for the plum-seller, but in spite of all their pains, he was nowhere to be found. Who acts: King, orchards. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 300

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The King had given orders that they should seek high and low for the plum-seller, but in spite of all their pains, he was nowhere to be found.

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**Who acts:** King, orchards · **What happens:** give, seek, find, spite, pain · **To what, where:** orders, King, spite, pains

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, orchards), 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:pg7277:22:300
# text = The King had given orders that they should seek high and low for the plum-seller, but in spite of all their pains, he was nowhere to be found.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	seller	seller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
29	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · perfect | the King | orders |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | should | orchards *= orchard* |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | past · passive |  | King |  | spite of orchards's pains |  | nowhere *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **spite** |  |  | orchards's pains |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **pain** |  | orchards *= orchard* |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: 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 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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