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title: Once upon a time, in a savage country where the snow lies deep for m… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time, in a savage country where the snow lies deep for many months in the year, there lived an owl and an eagle. Who acts: snow. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 68

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Once upon a time, in a savage country where the snow lies deep for many months in the year, there lived an owl and an eagle.

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**Who acts:** snow · **What happens:** lie, live · **To what, where:** owl

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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 (snow), 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:pg3027:26:68
# text = Once upon a time, in a savage country where the snow lies deep for many months in the year, there lived an owl and an eagle.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	23	advmod	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	savage	savage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | the snow |  |  |  | month; year | deep *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** | past |  | a owl and a eagle |  | there |  | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme owl=Location |

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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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