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title: Five of them were white, but the sixth, which was larger than the ot… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Five of them were white, but the sixth, which was larger than the others, was of an ugly grey colour. Who acts: Five, sixth. 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 63

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Five of them were white, but the sixth, which was larger than the others, was of an ugly grey colour.

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**Who acts:** Five, sixth · **What happens:** be

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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 (Five, sixth), 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:pg3027:8:63
# text = Five of them were white, but the sixth, which was larger than the others, was of an ugly grey colour.
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sixth	sixth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Five of burdocks |  |  |  |  | white *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the sixth |  |  |  |  | than the others; large *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the sixth |  |  |  |  | of a ugly grey colour | 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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