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title: For a moment his heart sank, and he gave himself up for dead, till h… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For a moment his heart sank, and he gave himself up for dead, till he remembered that, not far off, were two little lakes joined together by a short though very broad river. Who acts: heart, Andras. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 101

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For a moment his heart sank, and he gave himself up for dead, till he remembered that, not far off, were two little lakes joined together by a short though very broad river.

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**Who acts:** heart, Andras · **What happens:** sink, give up, remember, be, join · **To what, where:** Andras, that, two little lakes

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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 (heart, Andras), 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:pg3027:36:101
# text = For a moment his heart sank, and he gave himself up for dead, till he remembered that, not far off, were two little lakes joined together by a short though very broad river.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	iobj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	off	off	ADV	RB	_	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
29	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	together	together	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
33	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
34	though	though	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past | Andras's heart |  |  |  | moment |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **give up** | past | heart |  | Andras |  |  | for dead | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Source |
| 3 | **remember** | past | Andras | that |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Andras *not said here* | two little lakes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **join** | participle |  | two little lakes *not said here* |  |  |  | by a short broad river; together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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