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title: He looked wonderingly at it, and all of a sudden it disappeared and… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked wonderingly at it, and all of a sudden it disappeared and he found a dirty looking girl standing near him. Who acts: duck, all, dirty looking girl. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 77

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He looked wonderingly at it, and all of a sudden it disappeared and he found a dirty looking girl standing near him.

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**Who acts:** duck, all, dirty looking girl · **What happens:** look, disappear, find, stand · **To what, where:** dirty looking girl

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duck, all, dirty looking 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:pg2435:1:77
# text = He looked wonderingly at it, and all of a sudden it disappeared and he found a dirty looking girl standing near him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wonderingly	wonderingly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	near	near	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | duck |  |  |  |  | at water; wonderingly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 2 | **disappear** | past | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | duck | a dirty looking girl |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic |
| 4 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **stand** | gerund | a dirty looking girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near duck | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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