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description: While Ilse gathered up the gold and hid it away safely, the lovers whispered together, and what Friedlin told her seemed to make Lucia every moment more happy and contented. Who acts: Ilse, lovers, Friedlin. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, with
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 11

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While Ilse gathered up the gold and hid it away safely, the lovers whispered together, and what Friedlin told her seemed to make Lucia every moment more happy and contented.

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**Who acts:** Ilse, lovers, Friedlin · **What happens:** gather up, hide away, whisper, tell, seem, make · **To what, where:** gold, Lucia · **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 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilse, lovers, Friedlin), 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:pg2435:17:11
# text = While Ilse gathered up the gold and hid it away safely, the lovers whispered together, and what Friedlin told her seemed to make Lucia every moment more happy and contented.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Ilse	Ilse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
20	Friedlin	Friedlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather up** | past | Ilse | the gold |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
| 2 | **hide away** | past | Ilse *not said here* | gold |  |  |  | away, safely *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | the lovers |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Friedlin |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **seem** | past | Ilse |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | Ilse *not said here* | Lucia |  |  | moment |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lucia=Product |
| 7 | **content** | participle | Ilse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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