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title: At this Tephany, hurt, bewildered and excited, could control herself… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this Tephany, hurt, bewildered and excited, could control herself no longer, and turning away burst into tears. Who acts: turning. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 47

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At this Tephany, hurt, bewildered and excited, could control herself no longer, and turning away burst into tears.

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**Who acts:** turning · **What happens:** hurt, bewilder, control, turn away, burst · **To what, where:** Tephany, tears

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turning), 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:pg3454:33:47
# text = At this Tephany, hurt, bewildered and excited, could control herself no longer, and turning away burst into tears.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	control	control	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	no	no	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | participle |  | this Tephany *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **bewilder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **control** | could |  | Tephany |  | this Tephany |  | long *property* | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 4 | **turn away** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **burst** | past | turning |  |  | tears |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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