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title: He spread out his arms, and there was his wife’s waist within them,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He spread out his arms, and there was his wife’s waist within them, and he could see her plain; but such a hullabulloo rose as if there was an earthquake, and he found himself surrounded by horrible-looking things, roaring at him and striving to pull his wife away. Who acts: court, earthquake. A sen
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 126

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He spread out his arms, and there was his wife’s waist within them, and he could see her plain; but such a hullabulloo rose as if there was an earthquake, and he found himself surrounded by horrible-looking things, roaring at him and striving to pull his wife away.

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**Who acts:** court, earthquake · **What happens:** spread out, be, see, find, surround, look · **To what, where:** arms, waist, plain, court, wife · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court, earthquake), 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:pg3454:6:126
# text = He spread out his arms, and there was his wife’s waist within them, and he could see her plain; but such a hullabulloo rose as if there was an earthquake, and he found himself surrounded by horrible-looking things, roaring at him and striving to pull his wife away.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	within	within	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	28	det:predet	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	hullabulloo	hullabulloo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
39	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obj	_	_
40	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	ccomp	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	amod	_	_
45	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	striving	strive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	conj	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
54	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	away	away	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread out** | past | court | court's arms |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arm=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | court's wife's waist |  |  |  | within arms *= arm* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | could | court | wife's plain |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plain=Stimulus |
| 4 | **be** | past | a earthquake |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | past | court | court |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 6 | **surround** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 8 | **roar** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at court | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location |
| 9 | **strive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **pull away** | to-infinitive |  | court's wife |  |  |  | away *property* | 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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