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title: She had looked at the eggs at least a hundred and fifty times, when,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had looked at the eggs at least a hundred and fifty times, when, to her joy, she saw a tiny crack on two of them, and scrambling back to the nest she drew the eggs closer the one to the other, and never moved for the whole of that day. Who acts: duck. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by And
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 71

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She had looked at the eggs at least a hundred and fifty times, when, to her joy, she saw a tiny crack on two of them, and scrambling back to the nest she drew the eggs closer the one to the other, and never moved for the whole of that day.

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**Who acts:** duck · **What happens:** look, see, scramble back, draw, not move, joy · **To what, where:** tiny crack, two, one, eggs

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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 (duck), 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:pg3027:8:71
# text = She had looked at the eggs at least a hundred and fifty times, when, to her joy, she saw a tiny crack on two of them, and scrambling back to the nest she drew the eggs closer the one to the other, and never moved for the whole of that day.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	scrambling	scramble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
33	back	back	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	56	det	_	_
56	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · perfect | duck |  |  |  | time | at the eggs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at egg=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | duck | a tiny crack |  | two of eggs |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crack=Stimulus |
| 3 | **scramble back** | gerund | duck *not said here* | the one |  |  |  | to the nest; to the other; close *property* | vn mix-22.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient to nest=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **draw** | past | duck | the eggs |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **move** | past | duck *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the whole | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **joy** |  | duck |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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