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title: She felt half choked at the sight of their greediness, and wanted to… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She felt half choked at the sight of their greediness, and wanted to rush from the hall, and though Barbaik caught her arm to prevent this, and said all sorts of tender words which she thought would make the girl weep the more, Tephany with a violent effort forced back her tears, and wiped her eyes.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 58

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She felt half choked at the sight of their greediness, and wanted to rush from the hall, and though Barbaik caught her arm to prevent this, and said all sorts of tender words which she thought would make the girl weep the more, Tephany with a violent effort forced back her tears, and wiped her eyes.

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**Who acts:** Tephany, Barbaik, tender words, sorts, girl, violent effort · **What happens:** feel, choke, want, rush, catch, prevent · **To what, where:** sight, hall, arm, this, girl, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tephany, Barbaik, tender words, sorts), 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:pg3454:33:58
# text = She felt half choked at the sight of their greediness, and wanted to rush from the hall, and though Barbaik caught her arm to prevent this, and said all sorts of tender words which she thought would make the girl weep the more, Tephany with a violent effort forced back her tears, and wiped her eyes.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	advmod	_	_
4	choked	choke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	greediness	greediness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	rush	rush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
53	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	acl	_	_
54	back	back	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	wiped	wipe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
60	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Tephany |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **choke** | participle | Tephany *not said here* |  |  | the sight of others's greediness |  | half *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **want** | past | Tephany *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **rush** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Tephany *not said here* |  |  | the hall |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hall=Trajectory |
| 5 | **catch** | past | Barbaik | Tephany's arm |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 6 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | Barbaik *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer this=Theme |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tephany *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **think** *speech: other* | past | tender words |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **make** | would | all sorts of tender words | the girl |  |  |  | with a violent effort; Tephany *obl* | tree rules |
| 10 | **weep** | infinitive | the girl *not said here* | the more |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
| 11 | **force back** | participle | a violent effort *not said here* | Tephany's tears |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Recipient |
| 12 | **wipe** | past | Tephany *not said here* | Tephany's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source |
| 13 | **sight** |  |  | others's greediness |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 14 | **sort** |  |  | tender words |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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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