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title: Instead of answering at once, the ox eyed the beggar with a long loo… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead of answering at once, the ox eyed the beggar with a long look of disgust. Who acts: ox. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 72

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Instead of answering at once, the ox eyed the beggar with a long look of disgust.

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**Who acts:** ox · **What happens:** answer, eye · **To what, where:** beggar

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ox), 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:pg3454:25:72
# text = Instead of answering at once, the ox eyed the beggar with a long look of disgust.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	3	mark	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	eyed	eye	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	disgust	disgust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | the ox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eye** | past | the ox | the beggar |  |  |  | with a long look of disgust | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beggar=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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