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title: They all turned and looked at each other first, and next at the litt… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They all turned and looked at each other first, and next at the little fish who had regained her own shape and was more beautiful than any of them. Who acts: scales, little fish. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 39

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They all turned and looked at each other first, and next at the little fish who had regained her own shape and was more beautiful than any of them.

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**Who acts:** scales, little fish · **What happens:** turn, look, regain, be · **To what, where:** own shape

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scales, little fish), 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:pg3027:26:39
# text = They all turned and looked at each other first, and next at the little fish who had regained her own shape and was more beautiful than any of them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	5	obl	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	regained	regain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | scales *= scale* |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | scales *= scale* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at each; first *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme |
| 3 | **regain** | past · perfect | the little fish | Fish's own shape |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | scales *= scale* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than any; beautiful *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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