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title: Unluckily, at the sight of the maidens’ beauty, so far beyond anythi… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Unluckily, at the sight of the maidens’ beauty, so far beyond anything they had ever seen, the friends forgot all about Paul, and carried the girls straight away into a far country, so that they were not much better off than before. Who acts: heads, friends. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 103

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Unluckily, at the sight of the maidens’ beauty, so far beyond anything they had ever seen, the friends forgot all about Paul, and carried the girls straight away into a far country, so that they were not much better off than before.

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**Who acts:** heads, friends · **What happens:** see, forget, carry, be, sight · **To what, where:** girls, far country, beauty

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads, friends), 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:pg2435:31:103
# text = Unluckily, at the sight of the maidens’ beauty, so far beyond anything they had ever seen, the friends forgot all about Paul, and carried the girls straight away into a far country, so that they were not much better off than before.
1	Unluckily	unluckily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
14	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
19	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
39	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	45	mark	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	much	much	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	conj	_	_
46	off	off	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	than	than	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	before	before	ADV	RB	_	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · perfect | heads *= head* |  |  |  | ever | beyond anything; far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **forget** | past | the friends |  |  |  |  | about Paul | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | past |  | the girls |  | a far country |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | heads *= head* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | the maidens's beauty |  |  |  |  | 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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