--- title: Well, finding herself left alone in a strange place she began to cry… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Well, finding herself left alone in a strange place she began to cry with fright, and an eagle hovering near, heard her, and went to see what the sound came from. Who acts: finding, hawk, eagle, sound. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (finding, hawk, eagle, sound), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:9:106 # text = Well, finding herself left alone in a strange place she began to cry with fright, and an eagle hovering near, heard her, and went to see what the sound came from. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 finding find VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 4 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obj _ _ 5 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 hovering hover VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 22 near near ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 24 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 34 obj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | gerund | | hawk | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | | 2 | **leave** | participle | finding | | | | | in a strange place *result*; alone *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in place=Result | | 3 | **begin** | past | hawk | a strange place *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | hawk *not said here* | | | | | with fright | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fright=Theme | | 5 | **hover** | gerund | a eagle *not said here* | | | | | near *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **hear** | past | a eagle | hawk | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 7 | **go** | past | a eagle *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **see** | to-infinitive | a eagle *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 9 | **come** | past | the sound | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/9/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/9/107/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/9/)