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title: 'It will look best here--no, here,' she said, setting it first on on… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'It will look best here--no, here,' she said, setting it first on one piece of furniture and then on another. ' Who acts: place, 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 62

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'It will look best here--no, here,' she said, setting it first on one piece of furniture and then on another. '

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**Who acts:** place, girl · **What happens:** look, say, set · **To what, where:** place, one piece · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (place, 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:pg3027:11:62
# text = 'It will look best here--no, here,' she said, setting it first on one piece of furniture and then on another. '
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	xcomp	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	advmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | future | place |  |  | here |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **set** | gerund | girl *not said here* | place |  | one piece of furniture |  | first *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on piece=Destination |

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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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