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title: All of a sudden he saw a lovely maiden who bent over him and said: “… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All of a sudden he saw a lovely maiden who bent over him and said: “My dearest love, I am yours and you are mine. Who acts: All, lovely maiden, dearest love, you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 95

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All of a sudden he saw a lovely maiden who bent over him and said: “My dearest love, I am yours and you are mine.

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**Who acts:** All, lovely maiden, dearest love, you, My · **What happens:** see, bend, say, be, love · **To what, where:** lovely maiden, yours, All · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (All, lovely maiden, dearest love, you), 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:pg2435:1:95
# text = All of a sudden he saw a lovely maiden who bent over him and said: “My dearest love, I am yours and you are mine.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	nmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	dearest	dear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	ccomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | All | a lovely maiden |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bend** | past | a lovely maiden |  |  |  |  | over king | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | All *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | My dearest love | yours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | All |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **love** *in a quote* |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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