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title: At this very instant the young Fairy came out from behind the hangin… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this very instant the young Fairy came out from behind the hangings, and spake these words aloud: A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 16

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At this very instant the young Fairy came out from behind the hangings, and spake these words aloud:

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**What happens:** come out · **To what, where:** hangings

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg503:10:16
# text = At this very instant the young Fairy came out from behind the hangings, and spake these words aloud:
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	instant	instant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hangings	hanging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	spake	speak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	_
19	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past |  |  |  | the hangings |  | at the instant young Fairy; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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