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title: “Look round and see their shades, with arrows sticking in them. — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Look round and see their shades, with arrows sticking in them. Who acts: you, arrows, servants. 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 76

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“Look round and see their shades, with arrows sticking in them.

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**Who acts:** you, arrows, servants · **What happens:** look round, see, stick, shade · **To what, where:** shades

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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 (you, arrows, servants), 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:pg3282:14:76
# text = “Look round and see their shades, with arrows sticking in them.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	shades	shade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look round** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with arrows; round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | servants's shades |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shade=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stick** *in a quote* | gerund | arrows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in servants *= servant* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in they=Destination |
| 4 | **shade** *in a quote* |  | servants *= servant* |  |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: 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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