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title: Here she paused to consider what had best be done next, and looking… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here she paused to consider what had best be done next, and looking about her she saw that one of the walls had a tall tree growing by it, and in the corner was a window very nearly on a level with the highest branches of the tree. Who acts: shape, one, tall tree. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Boo
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 79

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Here she paused to consider what had best be done next, and looking about her she saw that one of the walls had a tall tree growing by it, and in the corner was a window very nearly on a level with the highest branches of the tree.

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**Who acts:** shape, one, tall tree · **What happens:** pause, consider, do, look, see, have · **To what, where:** tall tree, level · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (shape, one, tall tree), 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:pg3027:25:79
# text = Here she paused to consider what had best be done next, and looking about her she saw that one of the walls had a tall tree growing by it, and in the corner was a window very nearly on a level with the highest branches of the tree.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
11	next	next	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
39	very	very	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	47	amod	_	_
47	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | past | shape |  |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **consider** | to-infinitive | shape *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past · passive | shape *not said here* |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | shape *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about shape | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | past | shape |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **have** | past | one of the walls | a tall tree |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 7 | **grow** | gerund | a tall tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by it=Location |
| 8 | **is** | past |  |  |  | a level |  | in the corner; with the highest branches of the tree; nearly *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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