--- title: ‘Here, my poor darling,’ says he, ‘is your eldest child, and there,’… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Here, my poor darling,’ says he, ‘is your eldest child, and there,’ says he, pointing to a woman that was looking on with a smile on her face, ‘is the eagle that carried him away.’ Who acts: sun, woman, ‘, eagle. 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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 (sun, woman, ‘, eagle), 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:pg3454:13:49 # text = ‘Here, my poor darling,’ says he, ‘is your eldest child, and there,’ says he, pointing to a woman that was looking on with a smile on her face, ‘is the eagle that carried him away.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 darling darling NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 16 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 22 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 pointing point VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 on on ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 ‘ ‘ NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 44 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 45 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 acl:relcl _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 away away ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | | | there | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | sun | your eldest child | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | sun | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 4 | **point** | gerund | | | a woman | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient | | 5 | **look on** | past · progressive | a woman | | | | | with a smile on eagle's face | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **is a** | present | ‘ | the eagle | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **carry away** | past | the eagle | sun | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/13/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/13/50/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/13/)