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title: Once upon a time there lived a poor fisher who built a hut on the ba… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time there lived a poor fisher who built a hut on the banks of a stream which, shunning the glare of the sun and the noise of the towns, flowed quietly past trees and under bushes, listening to the songs of the birds overhead. Who acts: poor fisher, stream, towns, birds. A sentence of «T
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 90

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Once upon a time there lived a poor fisher who built a hut on the banks of a stream which, shunning the glare of the sun and the noise of the towns, flowed quietly past trees and under bushes, listening to the songs of the birds overhead.

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**Who acts:** poor fisher, stream, towns, birds · **What happens:** live, build, shun, flow, listen, noise · **To what, where:** poor fisher, hut, banks, glare

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor fisher, stream, towns, birds), 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:pg3027:32:90
# text = Once upon a time there lived a poor fisher who built a hut on the banks of a stream which, shunning the glare of the sun and the noise of the towns, flowed quietly past trees and under bushes, listening to the songs of the birds overhead.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	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	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fisher	fisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	shunning	shun	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	glare	glare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
36	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	past	past	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	under	under	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
50	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | a poor fisher |  | there | time | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme fisher=Location |
| 2 | **build** | past | a poor fisher | a hut |  | the banks of a stream |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hut=Theme on bank=Source |
| 3 | **shun** | gerund | a stream | the glare of the sun and the noise of the towns |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent glare=Location |
| 4 | **flow** | past |  |  |  |  |  | past trees and bushes; quietly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **listen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the songs of the birds; overhead *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme |
| 6 | **noise** |  | the towns |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **sing** |  | the birds |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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