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title: This encouraged her so much that, after breaking the shells with her… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 73

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This encouraged her so much that, after breaking the shells with her bill, so that the little creatures could get free of them, she sat steadily for a whole night upon the nest, and before the sun arose the five white eggs were empty, and ten pairs of eyes were gazing out upon the green world.

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**Who acts:** This, little creatures, duck, sun, five white eggs, ten pairs · **What happens:** encourage, break, get, sit, arise, be · **To what, where:** duck, shells, nest

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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 (This, little creatures, duck, sun), 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:pg3027:8:73
# text = This encouraged her so much that, after breaking the shells with her bill, so that the little creatures could get free of them, she sat steadily for a whole night upon the nest, and before the sun arose the five white eggs were empty, and ten pairs of eyes were gazing out upon the green world.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	encouraged	encourage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
23	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
29	steadily	steadily	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
45	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
51	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
52	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nsubj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	_
55	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
57	out	out	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	_
58	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encourage** | past | This | duck |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | gerund | This *not said here* | the shells |  |  |  | with duck's bill | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shell=Patient with bill=Instrument |
| 3 | **get** | could | the little creatures |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **sit** | past | duck |  |  | the nest | night | steadily *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon nest=Location |
| 5 | **arise** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | the five white eggs |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **gaze out** | past · progressive | ten pairs of eyes |  |  |  |  | upon the green world | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon world=Theme |
| 8 | **bill** |  | duck |  |  |  |  |  | nom bill «communication 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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