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title: And, besides, it is so different just eating a little now and then.' — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And, besides, it is so different just eating a little now and then.' Who acts: mosque. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 114

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And, besides, it is so different just eating a little now and then.'

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**Who acts:** mosque · **What happens:** be, eat · **To what, where:** little

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mosque), 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:pg3027:18:114
# text = And, besides, it is so different just eating a little now and then.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | mosque |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | mosque *not said here* | a little |  |  | now |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient |

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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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