--- title: Creeping softly to the door, he peeped through it, and beheld her ly… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Creeping softly to the door, he peeped through it, and beheld her lying quietly, with a crown of gold and pearls upon her head, her wrinkles all gone, and her face, which was whiter than the snow, as fresh as that of a girl of fourteen. Who acts: prince, face. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:4:17 # text = Creeping softly to the door, he peeped through it, and beheld her lying quietly, with a crown of gold and pearls upon her head, her wrinkles all gone, and her face, which was whiter than the snow, as fresh as that of a girl of fourteen. 1 Creeping creep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 2 softly softly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 peeped peep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 through through ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ _ 16 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 pearls pearl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 25 upon upon ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 wrinkles wrinkle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 all all ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 whiter white ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 conj _ _ 41 than than ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 as as ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ _ 47 as as ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 obl _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 fourteen fourteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 51 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **creep** | gerund | prince *not said here* | | | the door | | softly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination | | 2 | **peep** | past | prince | | | | | through door | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through it=Theme | | 3 | **behold** | past | prince *not said here* | noise | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lie** | gerund | prince *not said here* | | | | | with a crown of gold; quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pearl** | present | prince *not said here* | | | | | upon noise's head | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | noise's face | | | | | than the snow; white *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | noise's face *not said here* | | | | | as that | tree rules | | 8 | **crown** | | | gold | | | | | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/4/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/4/18/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/4/)