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title: Suddenly the beautiful creature lifted her head, and looked up into… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly the beautiful creature lifted her head, and looked up into Eglantine's face, with tears streaming from her eyes. Who acts: beautiful creature, tears. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 92

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Suddenly the beautiful creature lifted her head, and looked up into Eglantine's face, with tears streaming from her eyes.

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**Who acts:** beautiful creature, tears · **What happens:** lift, look up, stream · **To what, where:** head, eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful creature, tears), 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:pg3027:23:92
# text = Suddenly the beautiful creature lifted her head, and looked up into Eglantine's face, with tears streaming from her eyes.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
19	streaming	stream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | the beautiful creature | creature's head |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 2 | **look up** | past | the beautiful creature *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with tears; into Eglantine's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme |
| 3 | **stream** | gerund | tears *not said here* |  |  | creature's eyes |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from eye=Source |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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