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title: When he awoke in the morning he always found his room tidied and put… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he awoke in the morning he always found his room tidied and put into such beautiful order that not a speck of dust was to be found anywhere. Who acts: thing, room. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 83

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When he awoke in the morning he always found his room tidied and put into such beautiful order that not a speck of dust was to be found anywhere.

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**Who acts:** thing, room · **What happens:** awake, find, tidy, put · **To what, where:** such beautiful order, speck · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, room), 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:pg7277:28:83
# text = When he awoke in the morning he always found his room tidied and put into such beautiful order that not a speck of dust was to be found anywhere.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	tidied	tidy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	speck	speck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
29	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | thing |  |  |  | morning |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | thing |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **tidy** | participle | thing's room |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | participle | thing's room *not said here* |  |  | such beautiful order |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** | past · passive | thing's room *not said here* | a speck of dust |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme that=Attribute |

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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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