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title: These unexpected words cut his daughter to the heart; she remembered… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: These unexpected words cut his daughter to the heart; she remembered that all night long she had dreamed of a newly dug grave, and at this thought she broke out into loud lamentations. Who acts: unexpected words, daughter. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 44

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These unexpected words cut his daughter to the heart; she remembered that all night long she had dreamed of a newly dug grave, and at this thought she broke out into loud lamentations.

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**Who acts:** unexpected words, daughter · **What happens:** cut, remember, dream, dig, break out · **To what, where:** daughter, thought

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unexpected words, daughter), 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:pg2435:16:44
# text = These unexpected words cut his daughter to the heart; she remembered that all night long she had dreamed of a newly dug grave, and at this thought she broke out into loud lamentations.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	that	that	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | past | this unexpected words | word's daughter |  |  |  | to the heart *result* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient to heart=Result |
| 2 | **remember** | past | daughter |  |  |  | night | long *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dream** | past · perfect | daughter |  |  |  |  | of a dug grave | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dig** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **break out** | past | daughter |  |  | this thought |  | into loud lamentations | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thought=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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