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title: 'Quite well as regards my health,' answered the wolf, whose eye glis… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Quite well as regards my health,' answered the wolf, whose eye glistened greedily, 'at least, as well as one can be when one is very hungry. Who acts: regards, one. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 67

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'Quite well as regards my health,' answered the wolf, whose eye glistened greedily, 'at least, as well as one can be when one is very hungry.

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**Who acts:** regards, one · **What happens:** answer, glisten, be · **To what, where:** wolf, eye

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (regards, one), 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:pg3027:6:67
# text = 'Quite well as regards my health,' answered the wolf, whose eye glistened greedily, 'at least, as well as one can be when one is very hungry.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	regards	regards	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	nsubj	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	glistened	glisten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	greedily	greedily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	26	cc	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	fixed	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
29	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	33	mark	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | regards | the wolf |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wolf=Eventuality |
| 2 | **glisten** | participle |  | the wolf's eye *not said here* |  |  |  | greedily *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | can | one |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | 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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