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title: Then she swooped down, and, hiding herself behind a buttress so that… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she swooped down, and, hiding herself behind a buttress so that she could not be detected from below, she set herself to dig out the nearest blue stones with her beak. Who acts: Eagle. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 99

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Then she swooped down, and, hiding herself behind a buttress so that she could not be detected from below, she set herself to dig out the nearest blue stones with her beak.

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**Who acts:** Eagle · **What happens:** swoop down, hide, not detect, set, dig out · **To what, where:** Eagle, buttress, nearest blue stones

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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 (Eagle), 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:pg3027:25:99
# text = Then she swooped down, and, hiding herself behind a buttress so that she could not be detected from below, she set herself to dig out the nearest blue stones with her beak.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swooped	swoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	buttress	buttress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	19	mark	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	detected	detect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	below	below	ADV	RB	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
31	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swoop down** | past | Eagle |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | gerund | Eagle *not said here* | Eagle |  | a buttress |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient behind buttress=Location |
| 3 | **not** **detect** | could · passive |  | Eagle |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **set** | past | Eagle | Eagle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dig out** | to-infinitive | Eagle *not said here* | the nearest blue stones |  |  |  | with Eagle's beak | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent stone=Theme with beak=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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