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title: When at last they reached the deck and looked around them, nought of… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When at last they reached the deck and looked around them, nought of land could they see, or anything save the rushing waters. Who acts: they, nought. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 5

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When at last they reached the deck and looked around them, nought of land could they see, or anything save the rushing waters.

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**Who acts:** they, nought · **What happens:** reach, look, see, save, rush · **To what, where:** deck, last, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, nought), 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:pg3027:8:5
# text = When at last they reached the deck and looked around them, nought of land could they see, or anything save the rushing waters.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	_
22	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | they | the deck |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent deck=Theme at last=Asset |
| 2 | **look** | past | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around them *= they* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around they=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | could | nought |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **save** | present |  | anything |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 5 | **rush** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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