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title: But the longer he looked the more he agreed with his father that the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the longer he looked the more he agreed with his father that there was treason somewhere, for in no single respect did the portrait resemble the woman before him. Who acts: prince, portrait. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 63

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But the longer he looked the more he agreed with his father that there was treason somewhere, for in no single respect did the portrait resemble the woman before him.

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**Who acts:** prince, portrait · **What happens:** look, agree, be, resemble · **To what, where:** woman, single respect

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, portrait), 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:pg3027:23:63
# text = But the longer he looked the more he agreed with his father that there was treason somewhere, for in no single respect did the portrait resemble the woman before him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	treason	treason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
17	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
22	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	resemble	resemble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	before	before	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with prince's father; somewhere *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **resemble** | past · do-support | the portrait | the woman |  | no single respect | before prince |  | 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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