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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 1

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So Lyman bent over the well lower than before, and seemed busier than ever.

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**Who acts:** Lyman · **What happens:** bend, seem

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lyman), 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:pg3027:36:1
# text = So Lyman bent over the well lower than before, and seemed busier than ever.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Lyman	Lyman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	advcl	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	before	before	ADV	RB	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	busier	busy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | past | Lyman |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seem** | past | Lyman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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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