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title: 'None of us has got it,' said the fishes, shaking their heads; 'but… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'None of us has got it,' said the fishes, shaking their heads; 'but in the bay yonder there is a tunny who, although he is so old, always goes everywhere. Who acts: None, tunny. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 37

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'None of us has got it,' said the fishes, shaking their heads; 'but in the bay yonder there is a tunny who, although he is so old, always goes everywhere.

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**Who acts:** None, tunny · **What happens:** get, say, shake, be, go · **To what, where:** fish, fishes, heads, tunny, bay · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (None, tunny), 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:pg3027:15:37
# text = 'None of us has got it,' said the fishes, shaking their heads; 'but in the bay yonder there is a tunny who, although he is so old, always goes everywhere.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
23	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tunny	tunny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	37	advmod	_	_
37	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
38	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present · perfect | None | fish |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | None *not said here* | the fishes |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fish=Topic |
| 3 | **shake** | gerund | None *not said here* | relations's heads |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | None *not said here* | a tunny |  | the bay |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | a tunny |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | present | a tunny *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always, everywhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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