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title: All through the next day she sat on, giving up even her morning bath… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All through the next day she sat on, giving up even her morning bath for fear that a blast of cold might strike the big egg. Who acts: duck, blast. 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 85

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All through the next day she sat on, giving up even her morning bath for fear that a blast of cold might strike the big egg.

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**Who acts:** duck, blast · **What happens:** sit on, give up, strike · **To what, where:** morning bath, big egg

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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, blast), 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:pg3027:8:85
# text = All through the next day she sat on, giving up even her morning bath for fear that a blast of cold might strike the big egg.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nmod	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit on** | past | duck |  |  |  | day | all *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give up** | gerund | duck *not said here* | duck's morning bath |  |  |  | for fear | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **strike** | might | a blast of cold | the big egg |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient |

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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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