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title: Such beautiful things had never been seen in the island, and the nur… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Such beautiful things had never been seen in the island, and the nurse and waiting women stood bewildered by all the magnificence. Who acts: magnificence. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 79

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Such beautiful things had never been seen in the island, and the nurse and waiting women stood bewildered by all the magnificence.

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**Who acts:** magnificence · **What happens:** not see, wait, bewilder · **To what, where:** Such beautiful things, island, women, nurse

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magnificence), 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:pg2435:5:79
# text = Such beautiful things had never been seen in the island, and the nurse and waiting women stood bewildered by all the magnificence.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
17	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	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 | **not** **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | Such beautiful things |  | the island |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | all magnificence *not said here* | women |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bewilder** | past · passive | all magnificence | the nurse |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=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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