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title: And they pointed to what Makoma had thought were two tall mountain p… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And they pointed to what Makoma had thought were two tall mountain peaks. ' Who acts: wives. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 18

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And they pointed to what Makoma had thought were two tall mountain peaks. '

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**Who acts:** wives · **What happens:** point, think, be · **To what, where:** Makoma, two tall mountain peaks

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wives), 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:pg3027:2:18
# text = And they pointed to what Makoma had thought were two tall mountain peaks. '
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pointed	point	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
6	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** | past | wives *= wife* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | Makoma |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | two tall mountain peaks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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