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title: He drew it out to slip on the king's foot, and over the goat-skin he… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He drew it out to slip on the king's foot, and over the goat-skin he had rubbed a polish so white that the snow itself was not more dazzling. Who acts: physician, snow. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 38

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He drew it out to slip on the king's foot, and over the goat-skin he had rubbed a polish so white that the snow itself was not more dazzling.

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**Who acts:** physician, snow · **What happens:** draw out, slip, rub, not be · **To what, where:** shoe, foot, polish, goat skin, more dazzling

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (physician, snow), 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:pg3027:37:38
# text = He drew it out to slip on the king's foot, and over the goat-skin he had rubbed a polish so white that the snow itself was not more dazzling.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	polish	polish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	28	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
33	dazzling	dazzling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **draw out** | past | physician | shoe |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **slip** | to-infinitive | physician *not said here* |  |  | the king's foot |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **rub** | past · perfect | physician | a polish |  | the goat skin |  | white *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent polish=Theme over skin=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | past | the snow  shoe | more dazzling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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