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title: The farmer eyed them a minute, and then, picking up his stick, he de… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The farmer eyed them a minute, and then, picking up his stick, he dealt each a sounding blow, counting, as he did so, 'One! two! three!' and so on up to the seven. Who acts: farmer. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 71

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The farmer eyed them a minute, and then, picking up his stick, he dealt each a sounding blow, counting, as he did so, 'One! two! three!' and so on up to the seven.

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**Who acts:** farmer · **What happens:** eye, pick up, deal, sound, count, do · **To what, where:** plans, stick, sounding blow

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer), 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:pg3027:13:71
# text = The farmer eyed them a minute, and then, picking up his stick, he dealt each a sounding blow, counting, as he did so, 'One! two! three!' and so on up to the seven.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eyed	eye	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	dealt	deal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sounding	sound	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
35	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eye** | past | the farmer | plans *= plan* |  |  | minute |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pick up** | gerund | the farmer *not said here* | farmer's stick |  |  | then |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Topic |
| 3 | **deal** | past | farmer | each sounding blow |  |  |  | One *obl* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
| 4 | **sound** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **count** | gerund | farmer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **do** | past | farmer |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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