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title: The wool is indeed a sheep's wool, but the paws of my uncle the grey… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wool is indeed a sheep's wool, but the paws of my uncle the greyhound peep out from underneath.' Who acts: wool, paws. 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 39

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The wool is indeed a sheep's wool, but the paws of my uncle the greyhound peep out from underneath.'

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**Who acts:** wool, paws · **What happens:** be, peep out · **To what, where:** wool

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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 (wool, paws), 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:pg3027:18:39
# text = The wool is indeed a sheep's wool, but the paws of my uncle the greyhound peep out from underneath.'
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	peep	peep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the wool | a sheep's wool |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **peep out** | infinitive | the paws of my uncle  the greyhound |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from underneath=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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