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title: “Look at her once more,” said the holy man, and as they drew near th… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Look at her once more,” said the holy man, and as they drew near the cradle there lay the baby smiling up at them. Who acts: holy man, veins, baby. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 27

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“Look at her once more,” said the holy man, and as they drew near the cradle there lay the baby smiling up at them.

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**Who acts:** holy man, veins, baby · **What happens:** look, say, draw, lie, smile up · **To what, where:** baby, cradle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (holy man, veins, baby), 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:pg2435:38:27
# text = “Look at her once more,” said the holy man, and as they drew near the cradle there lay the baby smiling up at them.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	near	near	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at look | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the holy man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **draw** | past | veins *= vein* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lie** | past | veins *= vein* *not said here* | the baby |  | the cradle; there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location baby=Theme |
| 5 | **smile up** | gerund | the baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at veins *= vein* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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