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title: As she sat with her face hidden and her body shaken by sobs, Sigurd… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As she sat with her face hidden and her body shaken by sobs, Sigurd in his tree heard her and was moved to pity. Who acts: Laufer, body. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 73

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As she sat with her face hidden and her body shaken by sobs, Sigurd in his tree heard her and was moved to pity.

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**Who acts:** Laufer, body · **What happens:** sit, shake, hear, move, pity · **To what, where:** body, Laufer

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laufer, body), 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:pg2435:23:73
# text = As she sat with her face hidden and her body shaken by sobs, Sigurd in his tree heard her and was moved to pity.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
11	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sobs	sob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	pity	pity	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Laufer |  |  |  |  | with Laufer's face; hidden *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shake** | participle |  | Laufer's body and Sigurd in Sigurd's tree *not said here* |  |  |  | by sobs | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sob=Location |
| 3 | **hear** | past | Laufer's body and Sigurd in Sigurd's tree | Laufer |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 4 | **move** | past · passive | Laufer's body and Sigurd in Sigurd's tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pity** | to-infinitive | Laufer's body and Sigurd in Sigurd's tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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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