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title: One beautiful bright morning, as he was hauling his well-filled nets… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One beautiful bright morning, as he was hauling his well-filled nets into the boat, he saw lying among the fishes a tiny little turtle. Who acts: son. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 56

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One beautiful bright morning, as he was hauling his well-filled nets into the boat, he saw lying among the fishes a tiny little turtle.

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** haul, fill, see, lie · **To what, where:** filled nets, boat, tiny little turtle

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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:pg5615:3:56
# text = One beautiful bright morning, as he was hauling his well-filled nets into the boat, he saw lying among the fishes a tiny little turtle.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	hauling	haul	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haul** | past · progressive | son | son's filled nets |  | the boat |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past | son |  |  |  | morning |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund | son *not said here* | a tiny little turtle |  |  |  | among the fishes | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location turtle=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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