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title: Suddenly they both caught sight of a tiny speck no bigger than a was… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly they both caught sight of a tiny speck no bigger than a wasp, right up in the blue. Who acts: eyes. 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 clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 103

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Suddenly they both caught sight of a tiny speck no bigger than a wasp, right up in the blue.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** catch, sight · **To what, where:** sight, tiny speck

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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 (eyes), 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:pg2435:19:103
# text = Suddenly they both caught sight of a tiny speck no bigger than a wasp, right up in the blue.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	both	both	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	speck	speck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	no	no	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wasp	wasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	right	right	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | eyes *= eye* | sight of a tiny speck |  |  |  | both, suddenly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 2 | **sight** |  |  | a tiny speck |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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