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title: She stood in the centre of the ring for a moment, looking at one man… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She stood in the centre of the ring for a moment, looking at one man after another, and then held out the apple to the Shifty Lad, who was twisting a shaving of wood round his finger, and had the mouthpiece of a bagpipe hanging from his neck. Who acts: princess, Shifty Lad, bagpipe. A sentence of «T
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 19

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She stood in the centre of the ring for a moment, looking at one man after another, and then held out the apple to the Shifty Lad, who was twisting a shaving of wood round his finger, and had the mouthpiece of a bagpipe hanging from his neck.

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**Who acts:** princess, Shifty Lad, bagpipe · **What happens:** stand, look, hold out, twist, have, hang · **To what, where:** centre, apple, shaving, finger, mouthpiece, neck

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, Shifty Lad, bagpipe), 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:pg3454:3:19
# text = She stood in the centre of the ring for a moment, looking at one man after another, and then held out the apple to the Shifty Lad, who was twisting a shaving of wood round his finger, and had the mouthpiece of a bagpipe hanging from his neck.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Lad	Lad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	twisting	twist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	acl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	shaving	shaving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	round	round	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	mouthpiece	mouthpiece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	bagpipe	bagpipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	acl	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | princess |  |  | the centre of the ring for a moment |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at one man after another | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at man=Theme |
| 3 | **hold out** | past | princess *not said here* | the apple |  |  | then | to the Shifty Lad | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme |
| 4 | **twist** | past · progressive | the Shifty Lad | a shaving of wood |  | Man's finger |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent shaving=Theme round finger=Trajectory |
| 5 | **have** | past |  | the mouthpiece of a bagpipe |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthpiece=Patient |
| 6 | **hang** | gerund | a bagpipe *not said here* |  |  | Man's neck |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **shave** |  |  | wood |  |  |  |  | nom shaving «act transitive»: of=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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