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title: And in one corner is a thin, wretched-looking animal whom no one wou… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And in one corner is a thin, wretched-looking animal whom no one would glance at a second time, but he is in reality the best of the lot. Who acts: one, animal. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 84

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And in one corner is a thin, wretched-looking animal whom no one would glance at a second time, but he is in reality the best of the lot.

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**Who acts:** one, animal · **What happens:** look, be, glance · **To what, where:** thin looking animal, one corner, reality

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, animal), 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:pg641:7:84
# text = And in one corner is a thin, wretched-looking animal whom no one would glance at a second time, but he is in reality the best of the lot.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
7	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	glance	glance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	parataxis	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a thin looking animal |  | one corner |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **glance** | would | no one | a thin looking animal |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | animal |  |  | reality |  |  | 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 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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