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title: When she entered every one was surprised at so beautiful a face and… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When she entered every one was surprised at so beautiful a face and form dressed in so rich and rare a dress; but the young lord soon recognised his beautiful sweetheart, and would dance with none but her the whole evening. Who acts: cook, one, young lord. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 10

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When she entered every one was surprised at so beautiful a face and form dressed in so rich and rare a dress; but the young lord soon recognised his beautiful sweetheart, and would dance with none but her the whole evening.

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**Who acts:** cook, one, young lord · **What happens:** enter, be, dress, recognise, dance · **To what, where:** beautiful face, form, rich, beautiful sweetheart

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, one, young lord), 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:pg14241:32:10
# text = When she entered every one was surprised at so beautiful a face and form dressed in so rich and rare a dress; but the young lord soon recognised his beautiful sweetheart, and would dance with none but her the whole evening.
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	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	36	obl	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | cook |  |  | a beautiful face and form |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | every one |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dress** | participle |  | form *not said here* |  | rich and a dress |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **recognise** | past | the young lord | lord's beautiful sweetheart |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sweetheart=Stimulus |
| 5 | **dance** | would | the young lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with none | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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