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title: But though there was more than one “Njal” amongst them, Helga’s eyes… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But though there was more than one “Njal” amongst them, Helga’s eyes seemed always turned another way. Who acts: eyes. 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 81

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But though there was more than one “Njal” amongst them, Helga’s eyes seemed always turned another way.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** be, turn · **To what, where:** one, way

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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), 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:pg3282:13:81
# text = But though there was more than one “Njal” amongst them, Helga’s eyes seemed always turned another way.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	7	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Njal	Njal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
19	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | one |  |  |  | amongst men *= man* | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | past | Helga's eyes | another way |  |  |  | always *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=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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