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title: Now the queen’s eyes were very sharp, and it seemed to her that the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the queen’s eyes were very sharp, and it seemed to her that the man who stood before her, tall and handsome though he might be, was different in many slight ways, and in one in particular, from the man who had fought the tourney. Who acts: eyes, it, man, one. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book»
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 33

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Now the queen’s eyes were very sharp, and it seemed to her that the man who stood before her, tall and handsome though he might be, was different in many slight ways, and in one in particular, from the man who had fought the tourney.

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**Who acts:** eyes, it, man, one · **What happens:** be, seem, stand, fight · **To what, where:** queen, many slight ways, tourney

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, it, man, one), 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:pg3282:13:33
# text = Now the queen’s eyes were very sharp, and it seemed to her that the man who stood before her, tall and handsome though he might be, was different in many slight ways, and in one in particular, from the man who had fought the tourney.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nsubj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	acl:relcl	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	tourney	tourney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the queen's eyes |  |  |  | now | sharp *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it |  | queen |  |  | tall *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the man |  |  |  | before queen |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  | many slight ways |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | one |  |  |  |  | from the man | tree rules |
| 6 | **fight** | past · perfect | the man | the tourney |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tourney=Co-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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