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title: The sight of the drums stirred the fire of Prince Tahmasp’s love. — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sight of the drums stirred the fire of Prince Tahmasp’s love. Who acts: sight, Tahmasp. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 96

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The sight of the drums stirred the fire of Prince Tahmasp’s love.

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**Who acts:** sight, Tahmasp · **What happens:** stir, sight, fire, love · **To what, where:** fire, drums, love

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, Tahmasp), 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:pg3282:1:96
# text = The sight of the drums stirred the fire of Prince Tahmasp’s love.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	stirred	stir	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	Tahmasp	Tahmasp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **stir** | past | the sight of the drums | the fire of Tahmasp  Prince's love |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sight** |  |  | the drums |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **fire** |  |  | Tahmasp  Prince's love |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **love** |  | Tahmasp  Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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