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title: Next morning she was rewarded by noticing cracks in the whole five e… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning she was rewarded by noticing cracks in the whole five eggs, and by midday two little yellow heads were poking out from the shells. Who acts: two little yellow heads. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 72

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Next morning she was rewarded by noticing cracks in the whole five eggs, and by midday two little yellow heads were poking out from the shells.

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**Who acts:** two little yellow heads · **What happens:** reward, notice, poke out · **To what, where:** Next morning, cracks, whole five eggs, shells

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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 (two little yellow heads), 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:pg3027:8:72
# text = Next morning she was rewarded by noticing cracks in the whole five eggs, and by midday two little yellow heads were poking out from the shells.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	rewarded	reward	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	poking	poke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reward** | past · passive |  | Next morning |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **notice** | gerund |  | cracks |  | the whole five eggs |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crack=Stimulus |
| 3 | **poke out** | past · progressive | two little yellow heads |  |  | the shells |  | by midday | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent by midday=Location |

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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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