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title: Makoma was very wroth, but he said nothing, and drawing his finger-n… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Makoma was very wroth, but he said nothing, and drawing his finger-nail across the hair (which was as thick and strong as palm rope) cut it, and set free the mountain-maker. Who acts: Makoma, drawing. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 104

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Makoma was very wroth, but he said nothing, and drawing his finger-nail across the hair (which was as thick and strong as palm rope) cut it, and set free the mountain-maker.

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**Who acts:** Makoma, drawing · **What happens:** be, say, draw, cut, set · **To what, where:** nothing, finger nail, hair, nail · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Makoma, drawing), 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:pg3027:1:104
# text = Makoma was very wroth, but he said nothing, and drawing his finger-nail across the hair (which was as thick and strong as palm rope) cut it, and set free the mountain-maker.
1	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
12	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	csubj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	across	across	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
31	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
36	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Makoma |  |  |  |  | wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Makoma | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 3 | **draw** | gerund |  | Makoma's finger nail |  | the hair |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | thick *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | as palm rope | tree rules |
| 6 | **cut** | past | drawing | nail |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 7 | **set** | infinitive | drawing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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