--- title: Then, catching sight of the girl’s face, which she had kept down, he… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then, catching sight of the girl’s face, which she had kept down, he was struck by its beauty, and put the same question that the rabbit, and the elands, and the gazelles had done. Who acts: girl, beauty. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, beauty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:15:111 # text = Then, catching sight of the girl’s face, which she had kept down, he was struck by its beauty, and put the same question that the rabbit, and the elands, and the gazelles had done. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 catching catch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’s 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 obj _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 struck strike VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 elands eland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 gazelles gazelle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | gerund | | sight of the girl's face | | | then | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 2 | **keep down** | past · perfect | girl | the girl's face | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | | 3 | **strike** | past · passive | face's beauty | Koane | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument | | 4 | **put** | infinitive | | the same question | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal | | 5 | **do** | past · perfect · passive | | the gazelles | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 6 | **sight** | | | the girl's face | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/15/110/) - next →: [sentence 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/15/112/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/15/)