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title: The yard is full already; and did you ever see anything quite as ugl… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The yard is full already; and did you ever see anything quite as ugly as that great tall creature? Who acts: yard, you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 10

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The yard is full already; and did you ever see anything quite as ugly as that great tall creature?

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**Who acts:** yard, you · **What happens:** be, do, see · **To what, where:** anything

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yard, you), 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:pg3027:9:10
# text = The yard is full already; and did you ever see anything quite as ugly as that great tall creature?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	already	already	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the yard |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | the yard *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | present | you | anything |  |  | ever | ugly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |

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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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