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description: The orange trees were so tall and thick that, even at mid-day, the sun was never too hot, and at the end of the path was a glimmer of something so dazzling that the queen had to shade her eyes, and peep at it only between her fingers. Who acts: orange trees, that, sun, queen. A sentence of «The Oran
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 43

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The orange trees were so tall and thick that, even at mid-day, the sun was never too hot, and at the end of the path was a glimmer of something so dazzling that the queen had to shade her eyes, and peep at it only between her fingers.

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**Who acts:** orange trees, that, sun, queen · **What happens:** be, not be, dazzle, have, shade, peep · **To what, where:** glimmer, end, eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (orange trees, that, sun, queen), 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:pg3027:22:43
# text = The orange trees were so tall and thick that, even at mid-day, the sun was never too hot, and at the end of the path was a glimmer of something so dazzling that the queen had to shade her eyes, and peep at it only between her fingers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	nmod	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	dazzling	dazzle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	ccomp	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	shade	shade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	peep	peep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	_
49	only	only	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
50	between	between	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the orange trees |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the orange trees *not said here* | a glimmer |  |  | at the end of the path | of something | tree rules |
| 5 | **dazzle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | past | the queen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **shade** | to-infinitive | the queen *not said here* | queen's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **peep** | infinitive | the queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between queen's fingers; at path | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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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