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title: Everything in the house was beautifully clean and tidy, and a cheerf… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything in the house was beautifully clean and tidy, and a cheerful honest-looking old woman was sitting by the fire. Who acts: Everything, cheerful looking old woman. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 85

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Everything in the house was beautifully clean and tidy, and a cheerful honest-looking old woman was sitting by the fire.

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**Who acts:** Everything, cheerful looking old woman · **What happens:** be, look, sit

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, cheerful looking old woman), 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:pg2435:2:85
# text = Everything in the house was beautifully clean and tidy, and a cheerful honest-looking old woman was sitting by the fire.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
13	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
14	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Everything |  |  |  |  | beautifully, clean *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sit** | past · progressive | a cheerful looking old woman |  |  |  |  | by the fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=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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