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title: He would never go near a pool again, never, thought he; and seeing t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He would never go near a pool again, never, thought he; and seeing that the moor stretched far away in the opposite direction from which he had come, he marched bravely on till he got to a small cottage, which seemed too tumbledown for the stones to hold together many hours longer. Who acts: dog, mo
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 46

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He would never go near a pool again, never, thought he; and seeing that the moor stretched far away in the opposite direction from which he had come, he marched bravely on till he got to a small cottage, which seemed too tumbledown for the stones to hold together many hours longer.

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**Who acts:** dog, moor, small cottage · **What happens:** not go, not think, see, stretch, come, march · **To what, where:** pool, dog, moor, opposite direction, tumbledown · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dog, moor, small cottage), 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:pg3027:9:46
# text = He would never go near a pool again, never, thought he; and seeing that the moor stretched far away in the opposite direction from which he had come, he marched bravely on till he got to a small cottage, which seemed too tumbledown for the stones to hold together many hours longer.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
20	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
35	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
47	too	too	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	tumbledown	tumbledown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	acl	_	_
54	together	together	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
55	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl:unmarked	_	_
57	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | would | dog |  |  | a pool | again |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near pool=Location |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | dog *not said here* | dog |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | gerund | dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stretch** | participle |  | the moor *not said here* |  | the opposite direction |  | away *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **come** | past · perfect | dog |  |  | the opposite direction |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **march** | past | the moor |  |  |  |  | bravely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **get** | past | dog |  |  |  |  | to a small cottage *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to cottage=Result |
| 8 | **seem** | past | a small cottage | tumbledown |  |  |  | for the stones | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tumbledown=Attribute |
| 9 | **hold together** | to-infinitive | a small cottage *not said here* | tumbledown *not said here* |  |  |  | long, together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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