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title: In the deep dark pool of which the old man had spoken the silver-sid… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the deep dark pool of which the old man had spoken the silver-sided salmon was lying under a rock. Who acts: old man, deep dark pool. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 40

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In the deep dark pool of which the old man had spoken the silver-sided salmon was lying under a rock.

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**Who acts:** old man, deep dark pool · **What happens:** speak, lie · **To what, where:** sided salmon, rock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, deep dark pool), 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:pg3027:31:40
# text = In the deep dark pool of which the old man had spoken the silver-sided salmon was lying under a rock.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	sided	sided	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect | the old man | the sided salmon |  |  |  | of the deep dark pool | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | past · progressive | the deep dark pool |  |  | a rock |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under rock=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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