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title: One morning he was in the goose market, looking for some nice fat ge… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning he was in the goose market, looking for some nice fat geese. Who acts: incident, goose market. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 139

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One morning he was in the goose market, looking for some nice fat geese.

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**Who acts:** incident, goose market · **What happens:** be, look · **To what, where:** goose market

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (incident, goose market), 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:pg641:27:139
# text = One morning he was in the goose market, looking for some nice fat geese.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
13	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | incident |  |  | the goose market | morning |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | the goose market *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for some nice fat geese | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for goose=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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