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title: She lifted up one and looked at it, and then put it down to examine… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She lifted up one and looked at it, and then put it down to examine another yet more beautiful. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 3

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She lifted up one and looked at it, and then put it down to examine another yet more beautiful.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** lift up, look, put down, examine · **To what, where:** one, loft, another

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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:pg3027:11:3
# text = She lifted up one and looked at it, and then put it down to examine another yet more beautiful.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift up** | past | girl | one |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at loft | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 3 | **put down** | infinitive | girl *not said here* | loft |  |  | then |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 4 | **examine** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | another |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=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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