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title: Yet I--I--am overlooked, while these who have done nothing in compar… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet I--I--am overlooked, while these who have done nothing in comparison, are petted and thanked.' A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 67

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Yet I--I--am overlooked, while these who have done nothing in comparison, are petted and thanked.'

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**What happens:** overlook, do, pet, thank · **To what, where:** I, nothing, comparison

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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: 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:pg3027:22:67
# text = Yet I--I--am overlooked, while these who have done nothing in comparison, are petted and thanked.'
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	overlooked	overlook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	comparison	comparison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	petted	pet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	thanked	thank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overlook** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  | these *obl* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present · perfect |  | nothing |  | comparison |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **pet** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V» |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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