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title: Suddenly, on turning a corner, she stopped in surprise, for before h… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly, on turning a corner, she stopped in surprise, for before her lay a man fast asleep! Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 140

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Suddenly, on turning a corner, she stopped in surprise, for before her lay a man fast asleep!

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** turn, stop, lie · **To what, where:** corner, surprise, man

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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:pg3282:33:140
# text = Suddenly, on turning a corner, she stopped in surprise, for before her lay a man fast asleep!
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund | princess *not said here* | a corner |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | past | princess |  |  | surprise |  | suddenly *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in surprise=Location |
| 3 | **lie** | past | princess | a man |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=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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