--- title: The lady looked at him quite amazed, and swinging her head from side… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The lady looked at him quite amazed, and swinging her head from side to side like a great scholar, ‘Well,’ says she, ‘Maurice, if you’re not a poet, where is poetry to be found?’ Who acts: lady, you. 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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 (lady, you), 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:pg3454:18:54 # text = The lady looked at him quite amazed, and swinging her head from side to side like a great scholar, ‘Well,’ says she, ‘Maurice, if you’re not a poet, where is poetry to be found?’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 quite quite ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 amazed amazed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 swinging swing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 scholar scholar NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Well well INTJ UH _ 26 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 26 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Maurice maurice NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’re be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 poet poet NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 41 advmod _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 poetry poetry NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 43 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ? ? PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | the lady | | | | | at honour; amazed *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | | 2 | **swing** | gerund | the lady *not said here* | lady's head | | side | | to side *result*; like a great scholar | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient head=Extent from side=Initial\_State to side=Result | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | lady | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | | 4 | **not** **does** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a poet | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot poet=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | | poetry | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **find** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» | 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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/55/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/)