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title: Reflected in the still pool he saw many white shapes, with long neck… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Reflected in the still pool he saw many white shapes, with long necks and golden bills, and, without thinking, he looked for the dull grey body and the awkward skinny neck. Who acts: he. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 4

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Reflected in the still pool he saw many white shapes, with long necks and golden bills, and, without thinking, he looked for the dull grey body and the awkward skinny neck.

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**Who acts:** he · **What happens:** reflect, see, think, look · **To what, where:** pool, many white shapes

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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:pg3027:10:4
# text = Reflected in the still pool he saw many white shapes, with long necks and golden bills, and, without thinking, he looked for the dull grey body and the awkward skinny neck.
1	Reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bills	bill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	awkward	awkward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	skinny	skinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reflect** | participle | he *not said here* |  |  | the pool |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | he | many white shapes and long necks and golden bills |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shape=Stimulus |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | past | he |  |  |  |  | for the dull grey body and the awkward skinny neck | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for body=Theme |

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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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