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title: This time it was easier for Pinkel to approach the island unseen, as… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This time it was easier for Pinkel to approach the island unseen, as there was no golden lantern to thrown its beams over the water. Who acts: time, golden lantern, lantern. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 2

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This time it was easier for Pinkel to approach the island unseen, as there was no golden lantern to thrown its beams over the water.

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**Who acts:** time, golden lantern, lantern · **What happens:** be, approach, throw, beam · **To what, where:** island, beams, water

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, golden lantern, lantern), 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:pg3027:17:2
# text = This time it was easier for Pinkel to approach the island unseen, as there was no golden lantern to thrown its beams over the water.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
20	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this time |  |  |  |  | for Pinkel; easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **approach** | to-infinitive |  | the island |  |  |  | unseen *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | no golden lantern |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **throw** | participle | no golden lantern *not said here* | lantern's beams |  | the water |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent beam=Theme over water=Destination |
| 5 | **beam** |  | lantern |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=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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