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title: She found him waiting for her, and pretending to be asleep, though s… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She found him waiting for her, and pretending to be asleep, though she clearly saw him wink one of his eyes. Who acts: troop, jackal. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 58

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She found him waiting for her, and pretending to be asleep, though she clearly saw him wink one of his eyes.

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**Who acts:** troop, jackal · **What happens:** find, wait, pretend, be, see, wink · **To what, where:** jackal, one

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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 (troop, jackal), 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:pg3027:19:58
# text = She found him waiting for her, and pretending to be asleep, though she clearly saw him wink one of his eyes.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	wink	wink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | troop | jackal |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | jackal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for troop | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pretend** | gerund | troop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | troop *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | past | troop | jackal |  |  |  | clearly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **wink** | infinitive | jackal *not said here* | one of jackal's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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