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title: For a moment the girl sat choked with fear, as these thoughts rushed… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For a moment the girl sat choked with fear, as these thoughts rushed through her; then she said: “Alonzo, will you promise something?” Who acts: thoughts, girl, you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 66

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For a moment the girl sat choked with fear, as these thoughts rushed through her; then she said: “Alonzo, will you promise something?”

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**Who acts:** thoughts, girl, you · **What happens:** choke, rush, say, promise · **To what, where:** girl, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (thoughts, girl, you), 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:pg3282:10:66
# text = For a moment the girl sat choked with fear, as these thoughts rushed through her; then she said: “Alonzo, will you promise something?”
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	choked	choke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
28	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choke** | past · passive |  | the girl |  |  | moment | with fear | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fear=Theme |
| 2 | **rush** | past | this thoughts |  |  |  |  | through girl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through she=Trajectory |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | girl |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | future | you | something |  |  |  | Alonzo *vocative* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent something=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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