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title: She was most lovely, and I was so amazed at the perfection of her be… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was most lovely, and I was so amazed at the perfection of her beauty that I stood with senses lost, and did not know if she were real or a dream. Who acts: trace, I, beauty. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 65

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She was most lovely, and I was so amazed at the perfection of her beauty that I stood with senses lost, and did not know if she were real or a dream.

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**Who acts:** trace, I, beauty · **What happens:** be, stand, lose, not know, perfect · **To what, where:** perfection, senses, beauty

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trace, I, beauty), 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:pg3282:5:65
# text = She was most lovely, and I was so amazed at the perfection of her beauty that I stood with senses lost, and did not know if she were real or a dream.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	perfection	perfection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	know	know	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	ccomp	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | trace |  |  |  |  | lovely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | I |  |  | the perfection of trace's beauty |  | amazed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past | trace's beauty |  |  |  |  | with senses | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lose** | participle |  | senses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **know** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | trace |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **perfect** |  |  | trace's beauty |  |  |  |  | nom perfection «state 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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