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title: Before she had done staring, this hasty wooer had smoothed his way b… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Before she had done staring, this hasty wooer had smoothed his way by covering the shining table with gold pieces as a wedding gift to the bride’s mother, and had filled Lucia’s apron into the bargain; after which the dame made no difficulties, and the matter was speedily settled. Who acts: daughter
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 10

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Before she had done staring, this hasty wooer had smoothed his way by covering the shining table with gold pieces as a wedding gift to the bride’s mother, and had filled Lucia’s apron into the bargain; after which the dame made no difficulties, and the matter was speedily settled.

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**Who acts:** daughter, dame · **What happens:** do, stare, smooth, cover, shine, fill · **To what, where:** hasty wooer, shining table, apron, bargain, difficulties, matter

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (daughter, dame), 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:pg2435:17:10
# text = Before she had done staring, this hasty wooer had smoothed his way by covering the shining table with gold pieces as a wedding gift to the bride’s mother, and had filled Lucia’s apron into the bargain; after which the dame made no difficulties, and the matter was speedily settled.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
5	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wooer	wooer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	smoothed	smooth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
35	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	after	after	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	obl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	dame	dame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
47	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	48	det	_	_
48	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux:pass	_	_
54	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stare** | gerund | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **smooth** | past · perfect · passive |  | this hasty wooer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cover** | gerund |  | the shining table |  |  |  | with gold pieces; as a wedding gift to the bride's mother | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent table=Destination with piece=Theme |
| 5 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fill** | past · perfect |  | Lucia's apron |  | the bargain |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent apron=Patient |
| 7 | **make** | past | the dame | no difficulties |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difficulty=Product |
| 8 | **settle** | past · passive |  | the matter |  |  |  | speedily *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=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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