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title: The sight quite dazzled Martin and Michael, who emptied all the prov… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sight quite dazzled Martin and Michael, who emptied all the provisions that remained out of their bags, and heaped them up instead with handfuls of copper. Who acts: sight, Martin, provisions. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 132

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The sight quite dazzled Martin and Michael, who emptied all the provisions that remained out of their bags, and heaped them up instead with handfuls of copper.

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**Who acts:** sight, Martin, provisions · **What happens:** dazzle, empty, remain, heap up · **To what, where:** Martin, provisions, bags

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, Martin, provisions), 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:pg3027:19:132
# text = The sight quite dazzled Martin and Michael, who emptied all the provisions that remained out of their bags, and heaped them up instead with handfuls of copper.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	emptied	empty	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	heaped	heap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	27	case	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	handfuls	handful	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dazzle** | past | the sight | Martin and Michael |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus martin=Experiencer |
| 2 | **empty** | past | Martin and Michael | all provisions |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent provision=Source |
| 3 | **remain** | past | all provisions |  |  | provisions's bags |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out bag=Location |
| 4 | **heap up** | past | the sight *not said here* | provisions *= provision* |  |  |  | instead handfuls of copper | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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