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title: At this sight Alonzo became suddenly grave, and kneeling by her side… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this sight Alonzo became suddenly grave, and kneeling by her side, gently raised her up. Who acts: Alonzo. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 102

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At this sight Alonzo became suddenly grave, and kneeling by her side, gently raised her up.

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**Who acts:** Alonzo · **What happens:** become, kneel, raise up · **To what, where:** sight, Yara

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alonzo), 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:pg3282:10:102
# text = At this sight Alonzo became suddenly grave, and kneeling by her side, gently raised her up.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	kneeling	kneel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Alonzo |  |  | this sight |  | grave *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **kneel** | gerund | Alonzo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Yara's side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |
| 3 | **raise up** | past | Alonzo *not said here* | Yara |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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