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title: The children looked round wonderingly, and saw a little kind-looking… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The children looked round wonderingly, and saw a little kind-looking old man, in a white coat and a red cap, limping out from among the bushes, for he was lame in his left foot; neither Lisa nor Aina could utter a word, they were so filled with surprise. Who acts: children, man, Lisa. A sentence of 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 15

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The children looked round wonderingly, and saw a little kind-looking old man, in a white coat and a red cap, limping out from among the bushes, for he was lame in his left foot; neither Lisa nor Aina could utter a word, they were so filled with surprise.

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**Who acts:** children, man, Lisa · **What happens:** look, see, limp out, be, utter, fill · **To what, where:** little looking old man, white coat, bushes, left foot, word, children

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, man, Lisa), 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:pg3454:25:15
# text = The children looked round wonderingly, and saw a little kind-looking old man, in a white coat and a red cap, limping out from among the bushes, for he was lame in his left foot; neither Lisa nor Aina could utter a word, they were so filled with surprise.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	wonderingly	wonderingly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
11	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	limping	limp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	among	among	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
42	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	43	cc:preconj	_	_
43	Lisa	Lisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
44	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	45	cc	_	_
45	Aina	Aina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
46	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	utter	utter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
52	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux:pass	_	_
53	so	so	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	conj	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the children |  |  |  |  | round, wonderingly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past |  | a little looking old man |  | a white coat and a red cap |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 3 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **limp out** | gerund |  |  |  | the bushes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bush=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is** | past | man |  |  | man's left foot |  | lame *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **utter** *speech: other* | could | Lisa nor Aina | a word |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 7 | **fill** | past · passive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  | with surprise | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with surprise=Instrument |

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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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