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title: But, instead of sinking to the bottom, he paused a second to steady… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, instead of sinking to the bottom, he paused a second to steady himself, then gave a second spring which landed him on the further shore. Who acts: Andras, second spring. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 104

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But, instead of sinking to the bottom, he paused a second to steady himself, then gave a second spring which landed him on the further shore.

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**Who acts:** Andras, second spring · **What happens:** sink, pause, give, land · **To what, where:** Andras, further shore

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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 (Andras, second spring), 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:pg3027:36:104
# text = But, instead of sinking to the bottom, he paused a second to steady himself, then gave a second spring which landed him on the further shore.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	5	mark	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	sinking	sink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | gerund | Andras *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the bottom | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **pause** | past | Andras |  |  |  | second |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | past | Andras *not said here* |  |  |  | then; spring |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **land** | past | a second spring | Andras |  | the further shore |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on shore=Destination |

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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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