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title: And drawing the flask from his pocket, he poured two or three drops… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And drawing the flask from his pocket, he poured two or three drops on the wound. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 66

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And drawing the flask from his pocket, he poured two or three drops on the wound.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** draw, pour · **To what, where:** flask, pocket, two drops, wound

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg3027:38:66
# text = And drawing the flask from his pocket, he poured two or three drops on the wound.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
14	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | gerund | king *not said here* | the flask |  | king's pocket |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent flask=Theme from pocket=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pour** | past | king | two drops |  | the wound |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=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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