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title: Then she thought to herself she’d have a sharp eye about her this ti… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she thought to herself she’d have a sharp eye about her this time; so she never would allow a window to be more than a few inches open. Who acts: princess, few inches. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 11

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Then she thought to herself she’d have a sharp eye about her this time; so she never would allow a window to be more than a few inches open.

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**Who acts:** princess, few inches · **What happens:** think, have, not allow, be, open · **To what, where:** princess, sharp eye, window · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, few inches), 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:pg3454:13:11
# text = Then she thought to herself she’d have a sharp eye about her this time; so she never would allow a window to be more than a few inches open.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’d	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	obl	_	_
27	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | princess |  | princess |  | then |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | princess *not said here* | a sharp eye |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **allow** | would | princess | a window |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **open** | present | a few inches |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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