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title: 'Look what a splendid shoal!' and had no idea that they were hasteni… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Look what a splendid shoal!' and had no idea that they were hastening to the queen's palace; but, then, dwellers on land have so little notion of what goes on in the bottom of the sea! Who acts: you, people, dwellers, little notion. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, par
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 30

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'Look what a splendid shoal!' and had no idea that they were hastening to the queen's palace; but, then, dwellers on land have so little notion of what goes on in the bottom of the sea!

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**Who acts:** you, people, dwellers, little notion · **What happens:** look, have, hasten, go on · **To what, where:** idea, palace, little notion, bottom

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people, dwellers, little notion), 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:pg3027:25:30
# text = 'Look what a splendid shoal!' and had no idea that they were hastening to the queen's palace; but, then, dwellers on land have so little notion of what goes on in the bottom of the sea!
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shoal	shoal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	hastening	hasten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	dwellers	dweller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	notion	notion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	36	nsubj	_	_
36	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | you *not said here* | no idea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 3 | **hasten** | past · progressive | people | no idea *not said here* |  | the queen's palace |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent idea=Theme to palace=Trajectory |
| 4 | **have** | present | dwellers on land | little notion |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=Patient |
| 5 | **go on** | present | little notion |  |  | the bottom of the sea |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bottom=Location |

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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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