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title: At length the hole was large enough for him to peep through, and the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length the hole was large enough for him to peep through, and the sight was one to strike him dumb with amazement. Who acts: hole, Becasigue, sight. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 90

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At length the hole was large enough for him to peep through, and the sight was one to strike him dumb with amazement.

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**Who acts:** hole, Becasigue, sight · **What happens:** be, peep, strike · **To what, where:** length, one, Becasigue

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hole, Becasigue, sight), 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:pg3027:24:90
# text = At length the hole was large enough for him to peep through, and the sight was one to strike him dumb with amazement.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	peep	peep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	through	through	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | past | the hole |  |  | length |  | enough, large *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **peep** | to-infinitive | Becasigue |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the sight | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **strike** | to-infinitive |  | Becasigue |  |  |  | dumb *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |

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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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