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title: She had not gone far before she came to a clear pool, in which the s… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had not gone far before she came to a clear pool, in which the stars were reflected so brightly that they looked quite real to touch and handle. Who acts: Toad, stars. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 6

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She had not gone far before she came to a clear pool, in which the stars were reflected so brightly that they looked quite real to touch and handle.

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**Who acts:** Toad, stars · **What happens:** not go, come, reflect, look, touch, handle · **To what, where:** clear pool, stars

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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 (Toad, stars), 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:pg3027:26:6
# text = She had not gone far before she came to a clear pool, in which the stars were reflected so brightly that they looked quite real to touch and handle.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | Toad |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | Toad |  |  | a clear pool |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to pool=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **reflect** | past · passive |  | the stars |  |  |  | brightly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | past | stars *= star* |  |  |  |  | real *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **touch** | to-infinitive | stars *= star* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **handle** | infinitive | stars *= star* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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