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title: But instead of losing his shape, as so many had done before, he only… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But instead of losing his shape, as so many had done before, he only grew ten times handsomer; for the water was enchanted for good and not ill. Who acts: many, boy. 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 96

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But instead of losing his shape, as so many had done before, he only grew ten times handsomer; for the water was enchanted for good and not ill.

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**Who acts:** many, boy · **What happens:** lose, do, grow, enchant · **To what, where:** shape, water

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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 (many, boy), 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:pg3027:33:96
# text = But instead of losing his shape, as so many had done before, he only grew ten times handsomer; for the water was enchanted for good and not ill.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	4	mark	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
13	before	before	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **lose** | gerund |  | boy's shape |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | many |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | handsome *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **enchant** | past · passive |  | the water |  |  |  | for good | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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