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title: And the duckling soon found that it is one thing to enjoy being in t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the duckling soon found that it is one thing to enjoy being in the water, and quite another to like being damp on land. Who acts: duckling, snow, another. 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 81

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And the duckling soon found that it is one thing to enjoy being in the water, and quite another to like being damp on land.

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**Who acts:** duckling, snow, another · **What happens:** find, be, enjoy, like · **To what, where:** one thing, land · **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 (duckling, snow, another), 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:pg3027:9:81
# text = And the duckling soon found that it is one thing to enjoy being in the water, and quite another to like being damp on land.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	duckling	duckling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
24	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the duckling |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | snow | one thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive | the duckling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **like** | to-infinitive | another |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is** *not said to happen* | gerund | another *not said here* |  |  | land |  | damp *property* | tree rules |

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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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