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title: He passed by the many- coloured water without casting a glance at it… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He passed by the many- coloured water without casting a glance at it, and filled the jar from the fountain whose water was clear and pure. Who acts: two, water. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 89

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He passed by the many- coloured water without casting a glance at it, and filled the jar from the fountain whose water was clear and pure.

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**Who acts:** two, water · **What happens:** pass, cast, fill, be · **To what, where:** glance, jar, fountain

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, water), 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:pg3027:33:89
# text = He passed by the many- coloured water without casting a glance at it, and filled the jar from the fountain whose water was clear and pure.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
23	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | two |  |  |  |  | by the coloured water | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by water=Location |
| 2 | **cast** | gerund | two *not said here* | a glance |  | glance |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glance=Theme at it=Destination |
| 3 | **fill** | past | two *not said here* | the jar |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jar=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | water |  |  | the fountain |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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