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title: Yes, surely that was she, sitting on a rock, in a black satin dress,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, surely that was she, sitting on a rock, in a black satin dress, and her face the colour of a Moorish woman’s. Who acts: that, face. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 81

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Yes, surely that was she, sitting on a rock, in a black satin dress, and her face the colour of a Moorish woman’s.

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**Who acts:** that, face · **What happens:** be, sit, colour · **To what, where:** river, rock

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3454:2476`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:27:81
# text = Yes, surely that was she, sitting on a rock, in a black satin dress, and her face the colour of a Moorish woman’s.
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Moorish	Moorish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that | river |  |  |  | surely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  | a rock |  | in a black satin dress | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location |
| 3 | **colour** |  | river's face |  |  |  |  | of a Moorish woman | tree rules |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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