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title: But here the other giant drew him aside, and for a moment or two the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But here the other giant drew him aside, and for a moment or two they whispered together. Who acts: giants. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 16

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But here the other giant drew him aside, and for a moment or two they whispered together.

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**Who acts:** giants · **What happens:** draw, whisper · **To what, where:** Martin

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giants), 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:pg3027:20:16
# text = But here the other giant drew him aside, and for a moment or two they whispered together.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
6	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past |  | Martin |  |  |  | aside, giant *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | giants *= giant* |  |  |  | moment | together *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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