--- title: The little creature looked up and into her face, and nodded her head… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The little creature looked up and into her face, and nodded her head as the maid of honour unfastened the latch, but bounded away into the woods, and was lost to sight in a moment. Who acts: little creature, honour. 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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 (little creature, honour), 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:pg3027:24:11 # text = The little creature looked up and into her face, and nodded her head as the maid of honour unfastened the latch, but bounded away into the woods, and was lost to sight in a moment. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 nodded nod VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 unfastened unfasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 latch latch NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 bounded bound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 xcomp _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look up** | past | the little creature | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **nod** | past | the little creature *not said here* | creature's head | | | | as the maid of honour | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 3 | **unfasten** | participle | honour *not said here* | the latch | | | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latch=Patient | | 4 | **bound away** | past | | | | the woods | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination | | 5 | **lose** | past · passive | | sight | | | moment | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/12/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/)