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title: The sight of them so delighted Helga that she nearly sprang from her… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sight of them so delighted Helga that she nearly sprang from her saddle with a shriek of joy. Who acts: sight. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 2

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The sight of them so delighted Helga that she nearly sprang from her saddle with a shriek of joy.

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**Who acts:** sight · **What happens:** spring, sight, shriek · **To what, where:** saddle, horses, joy

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight), 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:pg3282:14:2
# text = The sight of them so delighted Helga that she nearly sprang from her saddle with a shriek of joy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shriek	shriek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | the sight of horses  delighted Helga |  |  | sight's saddle |  | with a shriek of joy; nearly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from saddle=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sight** |  |  | horses *= horse* |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **shriek** |  |  | joy |  |  |  |  | nom shriek «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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