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title: The moments seemed long while she and Death stood gazing up into the… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The moments seemed long while she and Death stood gazing up into the air, waiting to know whose prize the prince would be. Who acts: moments, queen, gazing. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 102

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The moments seemed long while she and Death stood gazing up into the air, waiting to know whose prize the prince would be.

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**Who acts:** moments, queen, gazing · **What happens:** seem, stand, gaze up, wait, know, be · **To what, where:** prize

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moments, queen, gazing), 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:pg2435:19:102
# text = The moments seemed long while she and Death stood gazing up into the air, waiting to know whose prize the prince would be.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	csubj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | the moments |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **gaze up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | into the air | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into air=Theme |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | to-infinitive |  | prize |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** | would | gazing |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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