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title: The crowd of watchers turned towards the queen, expecting to see her… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The crowd of watchers turned towards the queen, expecting to see her stoop and give some token to the victor. Who acts: crowd. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 45

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The crowd of watchers turned towards the queen, expecting to see her stoop and give some token to the victor.

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**Who acts:** crowd · **What happens:** turn, expect, see, give, stoop · **To what, where:** stoop, token, victor

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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 (crowd), 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:pg3282:13:45
# text = The crowd of watchers turned towards the queen, expecting to see her stoop and give some token to the victor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	watchers	watcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	stoop	stoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	victor	victor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the crowd of watchers |  |  |  |  | towards the queen | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards queen=Trajectory |
| 2 | **expect** | gerund | the crowd of watchers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the crowd of watchers *not said here* | crowd's stoop |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stoop=Stimulus |
| 4 | **give** | infinitive | the crowd of watchers *not said here* | some token | the victor |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent token=Theme to victor=Recipient |
| 5 | **stoop** |  | crowd |  |  |  |  |  | nom stoop «act intransitive»: 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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