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title: The Yara saw that he was wavering, and suffering herself to sway gen… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Yara saw that he was wavering, and suffering herself to sway gently backwards and forwards on the surface of the river, she began to sing. Who acts: Yara, figure. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 30

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The Yara saw that he was wavering, and suffering herself to sway gently backwards and forwards on the surface of the river, she began to sing.

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**Who acts:** Yara, figure · **What happens:** see, waver, suffer, sway, forward, begin · **To what, where:** figure, surface · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yara, figure), 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:pg3282:11:30
# text = The Yara saw that he was wavering, and suffering herself to sway gently backwards and forwards on the surface of the river, she began to sing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Yara	Yara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	wavering	waver	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	suffering	suffer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
11	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sway	sway	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	forwards	forward	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Yara |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **waver** | past · progressive | Yara |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **suffer** | gerund | Yara *not said here* | figure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sway** | to-infinitive | Yara *not said here* |  |  |  |  | backwards *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **forward** | present | Yara *not said here* |  |  | the surface of the river |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **begin** | past | figure |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | figure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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