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title: And indeed he did not, though he was not half so pretty to look at a… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And indeed he did not, though he was not half so pretty to look at as the little yellow balls that followed her. Who acts: husband, little yellow balls. 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 92

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And indeed he did not, though he was not half so pretty to look at as the little yellow balls that followed her.

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**Who acts:** husband, little yellow balls · **What happens:** not do, not be, look, follow · **To what, where:** half, duck

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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 (husband, little yellow balls), 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:pg3027:8:92
# text = And indeed he did not, though he was not half so pretty to look at as the little yellow balls that followed her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	conj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | past | husband |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | husband | half |  |  |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the little yellow balls | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ball=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | past | the little yellow balls | duck |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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