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title: When she looked up, she was surprised to see by the margin of the st… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When she looked up, she was surprised to see by the margin of the stream an old woman, quite unknown to her, drawing out the thread as she basked in the sun. There was nothing very remarkable in her appearance, except the length and thickness of her lips, only she was seated on a self-bored stone. W
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 5

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When she looked up, she was surprised to see by the margin of the stream an old woman, quite unknown to her, drawing out the thread as she basked in the sun. There was nothing very remarkable in her appearance, except the length and thickness of her lips, only she was seated on a self-bored stone.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** look up, be, see, draw out, bask, seat · **To what, where:** old woman, girl, thread, sun., bored stone

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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:pg14241:31:5
# text = When she looked up, she was surprised to see by the margin of the stream an old woman, quite unknown to her, drawing out the thread as she basked in the sun. There was nothing very remarkable in her appearance, except the length and thickness of her lips, only she was seated on a self-bored stone.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	margin	margin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	basked	bask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	37	expl	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	37	nsubj	_	_
39	very	very	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	except	except	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	parataxis	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	thickness	thickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	only	only	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
55	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux:pass	_	_
57	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	parataxis	_	_
58	on	on	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
60	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look up** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | a old woman |  |  |  | by the margin of the stream | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 4 | **be** |  | girl *not said here* |  | girl |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **draw out** | gerund | girl *not said here* | the thread |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme |
| 6 | **bask** | past | girl |  |  | the sun. |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **seat** | past · passive |  | girl |  | a bored stone |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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