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title: And as the prince, struck dumb with surprise, only looked at her, th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And as the prince, struck dumb with surprise, only looked at her, the deer cleared the next wall and was soon out of sight. Who acts: deer. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 68

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And as the prince, struck dumb with surprise, only looked at her, the deer cleared the next wall and was soon out of sight.

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**Who acts:** deer · **What happens:** strike, look, clear, be · **To what, where:** next wall, sight

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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 (deer), 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:pg3027:25:68
# text = And as the prince, struck dumb with surprise, only looked at her, the deer cleared the next wall and was soon out of sight.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	cleared	clear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the prince; with surprise; dumb *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with surprise=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at horse | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 3 | **clear** | past | the deer | the next wall |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wall=Source |
| 4 | **is** | past | the deer *not said here* |  |  | sight |  | soon *property* | 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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