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title: A rustling sound near her at length caused her to open her eyes; bef… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A rustling sound near her at length caused her to open her eyes; before her stood a huge woman, almost a giantess, without any clothes save a lion's skin, which was thrown over her shoulders, while a dried snake's skin was plaited into her hair. Who acts: rustling sound, queen, clothes. A sentence o
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 30

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A rustling sound near her at length caused her to open her eyes; before her stood a huge woman, almost a giantess, without any clothes save a lion's skin, which was thrown over her shoulders, while a dried snake's skin was plaited into her hair.

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**Who acts:** rustling sound, queen, clothes · **What happens:** rustle, cause, open, stand, save, throw · **To what, where:** queen, eyes, huge woman, skin, shoulders, hair

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rustling sound, queen, clothes), 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:pg3027:27:30
# text = A rustling sound near her at length caused her to open her eyes; before her stood a huge woman, almost a giantess, without any clothes save a lion's skin, which was thrown over her shoulders, while a dried snake's skin was plaited into her hair.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rustling	rustle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	giantess	giantess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	29	nsubj	_	_
29	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	over	over	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
42	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	amod	_	_
45	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	's	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	_
47	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	plaited	plait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	conj	_	_
50	into	into	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rustle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | past | a rustling sound near queen at length |  | queen |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **open** | to-infinitive | a rustling sound near queen at length *not said here* | queen's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past | queen | a huge woman |  |  |  | a giantess *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 5 | **save** | present | any clothes | a lion's skin |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 6 | **throw** | past · passive |  | a lion's skin |  | queen's shoulders |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over shoulder=Destination |
| 7 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **plait** | past · passive |  | a dried snake's skin |  | queen's hair |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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