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title: So, with a low bow, he vanished from before them, leaving the maiden… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So, with a low bow, he vanished from before them, leaving the maidens weeping at having lost in one moment both the ball and the prince. Who acts: door. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 50

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So, with a low bow, he vanished from before them, leaving the maidens weeping at having lost in one moment both the ball and the prince.

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**Who acts:** door · **What happens:** vanish, leave, weep, have, lose · **To what, where:** maidens

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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:pg3282:29:50
# text = So, with a low bow, he vanished from before them, leaving the maidens weeping at having lost in one moment both the ball and the prince.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
18	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc:preconj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past | door |  |  |  |  | with a low bow; from mountains *= mountain* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from they=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | door *not said here* | the maidens |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme |
| 3 | **weep** | gerund | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lose** | participle | door *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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