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title: The whale looked at him, sent up another fountain, and answered: “Oh… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The whale looked at him, sent up another fountain, and answered: “Oh, yes; certainly. Who acts: whale. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 53

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The whale looked at him, sent up another fountain, and answered: “Oh, yes; certainly.

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**Who acts:** whale · **What happens:** look, send up, answer · **To what, where:** fountain

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whale), 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:pg3282:35:53
# text = The whale looked at him, sent up another fountain, and answered: “Oh, yes; certainly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
20	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the whale |  |  |  |  | at elephant | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 2 | **send up** | participle |  | another fountain |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fountain=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yes=Eventuality |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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