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title: Last evening it came to visit me, and when I looked upon it its beau… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Last evening it came to visit me, and when I looked upon it its beauty faded into hideousness, its teeth became horrible fangs, its eyes glared like coals of fire, great claws sprang from its slender fingers, and were I not what I am it might have consumed me.’ Who acts: Jogi, I, beauty, teeth. A se
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 65

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Last evening it came to visit me, and when I looked upon it its beauty faded into hideousness, its teeth became horrible fangs, its eyes glared like coals of fire, great claws sprang from its slender fingers, and were I not what I am it might have consumed me.’

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**Who acts:** Jogi, I, beauty, teeth, eyes, great claws · **What happens:** come, visit, look, fade, become, glare · **To what, where:** me, hideousness, horrible fangs, slender fingers, I

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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 (Jogi, I, beauty, teeth), 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:pg3454:4:65
# text = Last evening it came to visit me, and when I looked upon it its beauty faded into hideousness, its teeth became horrible fangs, its eyes glared like coals of fire, great claws sprang from its slender fingers, and were I not what I am it might have consumed me.’
1	Last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	faded	fade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	hideousness	hideousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fangs	fang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	glared	glare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
37	sprang	spring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	parataxis	_	_
48	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
49	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
51	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	aux	_	_
53	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl:relcl	_	_
54	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Jogi |  |  |  | evening |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Jogi *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **look** | past | I |  |  |  |  | upon Jogi | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme |
| 4 | **fade** | past | Jogi's beauty |  |  | hideousness |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **become** | past | Jogi's teeth | horrible fangs |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **glare** | past | Jogi's eyes |  |  |  |  | like coals of fire and great claws | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **spring** | gerund | great claws *not said here* |  |  | Jogi's slender fingers |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from finger=Trajectory |
| 8 | **not** **is a** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **consume** | might · present · perfect · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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