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title: As he walked along his eyes fell upon a big eight-oared boat that la… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he walked along his eyes fell upon a big eight-oared boat that lay upon the shore, and his face shone with pleasure. ' Who acts: Andras, eyes, big oared boat, face. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 68

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As he walked along his eyes fell upon a big eight-oared boat that lay upon the shore, and his face shone with pleasure. '

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**Who acts:** Andras, eyes, big oared boat, face · **What happens:** walk, fall, oar, lie, shine · **To what, where:** big oared boat, 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, eyes, big oared boat, face), 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:pg3027:36:68
# text = As he walked along his eyes fell upon a big eight-oared boat that lay upon the shore, and his face shone with pleasure. '
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	oared	oar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Andras |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Andras's eyes |  |  | a big oared boat |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon boat=Location |
| 3 | **oar** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lie** | past | a big oared boat |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon shore=Location |
| 5 | **shine** | participle | Andras's face |  |  |  |  | with pleasure | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pleasure=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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