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title: The guards looked at each other with astonished eyes, as the wizened… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The guards looked at each other with astonished eyes, as the wizened creature, bowed with age, passed between their lines; but they were more amazed still at the lightness of her step as she skipped up the steps to the great door before which the king was standing, with the prince at his side. Who a
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 10

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The guards looked at each other with astonished eyes, as the wizened creature, bowed with age, passed between their lines; but they were more amazed still at the lightness of her step as she skipped up the steps to the great door before which the king was standing, with the prince at his side.

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**Who acts:** guards, woman · **What happens:** look, wizen, bow, pass, skip up, stand · **To what, where:** wizened creature, lines, steps, great door

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, woman), 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:pg3454:4:10
# text = The guards looked at each other with astonished eyes, as the wizened creature, bowed with age, passed between their lines; but they were more amazed still at the lightness of her step as she skipped up the steps to the great door before which the king was standing, with the prince at his side.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	3	obl	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wizened	wizen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bowed	bow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
21	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
30	still	still	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	lightness	lightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	skipped	skip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
47	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
48	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
57	at	at	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	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 guards |  |  |  |  | with astonished eyes; at the lightness of woman's step; at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme |
| 2 | **wizen** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **bow** | participle |  | the wizened creature *not said here* |  |  | with age |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pass** | participle |  |  |  | guards's lines |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between line=Location |
| 5 | **skip up** | past | woman | the steps |  | the great door |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme to door=Trajectory |
| 6 | **stand** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | with the prince at king's side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **step** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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