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title: The lovely maiden herself opened it, and so charmed me that I came n… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The lovely maiden herself opened it, and so charmed me that I came near forgetting my disguise; but I soon recovered my wits, and begged her to work a fine table-cloth for me, for she is reported to be the best needlewoman in all the country round. Who acts: lovely maiden, I. A sentence of «The Crim
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 68

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The lovely maiden herself opened it, and so charmed me that I came near forgetting my disguise; but I soon recovered my wits, and begged her to work a fine table-cloth for me, for she is reported to be the best needlewoman in all the country round.

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**Who acts:** lovely maiden, I · **What happens:** open, charm, come, forget, recover, beg · **To what, where:** door, me, disguise, wits, maiden, fine table cloth

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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 (lovely maiden, I), 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:pg2435:17:68
# text = The lovely maiden herself opened it, and so charmed me that I came near forgetting my disguise; but I soon recovered my wits, and begged her to work a fine table-cloth for me, for she is reported to be the best needlewoman in all the country round.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
5	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	charmed	charm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	near	near	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	wits	wit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
34	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
45	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	cop	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	48	amod	_	_
48	needlewoman	needlewoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	xcomp	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	52	det:predet	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
53	round	round	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | the lovely maiden | door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 2 | **charm** | past | the lovely maiden *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | past | I |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **forget** | gerund | I *not said here* | my disguise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **recover** | past | I | my wits |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Theme |
| 6 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | I *not said here* |  | maiden |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **work** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a fine table cloth |  |  |  | for me | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme for i=Eventuality |
| 8 | **report** | present · passive |  | maiden |  |  |  | round *property* | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 9 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the best needlewoman |  | all country |  |  | tree rules |

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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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