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title: Before this happened, however, the king’s son in passing the mother’… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Before this happened, however, the king’s son in passing the mother’s house had seen Lizina sitting sewing in the parlour, and had been dazzled by her beauty. Who acts: this, son, beauty. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 77

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Before this happened, however, the king’s son in passing the mother’s house had seen Lizina sitting sewing in the parlour, and had been dazzled by her beauty.

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**Who acts:** this, son, beauty · **What happens:** happen, pass, see, sit, sew, dazzle · **To what, where:** house, son, parlour

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, son, beauty), 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:pg2435:36:77
# text = Before this happened, however, the king’s son in passing the mother’s house had seen Lizina sitting sewing in the parlour, and had been dazzled by her beauty.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
19	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
21	sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	parlour	parlour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | gerund | the king's son *not said here* | the mother's house |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | the king's son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | the king's son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sew** | gerund | the king's son *not said here* |  |  | the parlour |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in parlour=Destination |
| 6 | **dazzle** | past · perfect · passive | Lizina's beauty |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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