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title: She smiled at him and held out her arms, but as she did so there cam… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She smiled at him and held out her arms, but as she did so there came over him the remembrance of Julia, as he had seen her a few hours earlier, and her warnings and fears for the very danger in which he now found himself. Who acts: woman, manner, warnings. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by An
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 22

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She smiled at him and held out her arms, but as she did so there came over him the remembrance of Julia, as he had seen her a few hours earlier, and her warnings and fears for the very danger in which he now found himself.

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**Who acts:** woman, manner, warnings · **What happens:** smile, hold out, do, come, see, fear · **To what, where:** arms, remembrance, woman, manner, danger, Julia

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, manner, warnings), 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:pg3282:11:22
# text = She smiled at him and held out her arms, but as she did so there came over him the remembrance of Julia, as he had seen her a few hours earlier, and her warnings and fears for the very danger in which he now found himself.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Julia	Julia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	warnings	warning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	very	very	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	obl	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
48	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
49	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smile** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | at manner | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hold out** | past | woman *not said here* | woman's arms |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | woman |  |  | there |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past | woman *not said here* | the remembrance of Julia |  |  |  | over manner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over he=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **see** | past · perfect | manner | woman |  |  |  | early *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 6 | **fear** |  | woman's warnings |  |  |  |  | for the danger | tree rules |
| 7 | **find** | past | manner | manner |  | the danger | now |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 8 | **remember** |  |  | Julia |  |  |  |  | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **warn** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom warning «communication 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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