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title: The witch’s daughter looked on with greedy eyes, and, says she, ‘Wha… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The witch’s daughter looked on with greedy eyes, and, says she, ‘What would you be satisfied to take for that scissors?’ Who acts: daughter. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 89

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The witch’s daughter looked on with greedy eyes, and, says she, ‘What would you be satisfied to take for that scissors?’

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** look on, say, be, take · **To what, where:** daughter · **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 (daughter), 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:pg3454:13:89
# text = The witch’s daughter looked on with greedy eyes, and, says she, ‘What would you be satisfied to take for that scissors?’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look on** | past | the witch's daughter |  |  |  |  | with greedy eyes | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | daughter |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for that scissors | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for scissors=Beneficiary |

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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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