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title: She had watched jelly-fish and nautilus swimming a little way below… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had watched jelly-fish and nautilus swimming a little way below the surface, and beautiful coloured sea-weeds floating about; but that was all. Who acts: shoal, beautiful coloured sea weeds. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 32

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She had watched jelly-fish and nautilus swimming a little way below the surface, and beautiful coloured sea-weeds floating about; but that was all.

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**Who acts:** shoal, beautiful coloured sea weeds · **What happens:** watch, swim, float · **To what, where:** jelly fish, little way, surface

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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 (shoal, beautiful coloured sea weeds), 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:pg3027:25:32
# text = She had watched jelly-fish and nautilus swimming a little way below the surface, and beautiful coloured sea-weeds floating about; but that was all.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	jelly	jelly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	nautilus	nautilus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	below	below	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
19	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
23	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past · perfect | shoal | jelly fish and nautilus |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 2 | **swim** | gerund | shoal *not said here* | a little way |  | the surface |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
| 3 | **float** | gerund | beautiful coloured sea weeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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