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title: At the same moment she saw close beside her the terrible head of Aht… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same moment she saw close beside her the terrible head of Ahti, and he had only half a beard!’ Who acts: Maie, Ahti. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 64

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At the same moment she saw close beside her the terrible head of Ahti, and he had only half a beard!’

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**Who acts:** Maie, Ahti · **What happens:** see, have · **To what, where:** terrible head, beard

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maie, Ahti), 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:pg3454:24:64
# text = At the same moment she saw close beside her the terrible head of Ahti, and he had only half a beard!’
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Maie | the terrible head of Ahti |  |  | moment | beside sea; close *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | Ahti | half beard |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=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 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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