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title: But as they were all sitting down at table they saw come into the ha… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as they were all sitting down at table they saw come into the hall a very old fairy, whom they had not invited, because it was above fifty years since she had been out of a certain tower, and she was believed to be either dead or enchanted. Who acts: fairies, you, hall, company. A sentence of «T
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 8

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But as they were all sitting down at table they saw come into the hall a very old fairy, whom they had not invited, because it was above fifty years since she had been out of a certain tower, and she was believed to be either dead or enchanted.

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**Who acts:** fairies, you, hall, company · **What happens:** sit down, see, come, not invite, be, believe · **To what, where:** table, old fairy, hall, fifty years, certain tower, company

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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: who acts (fairies, you, hall, company), 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:pg503:10:8
# text = But as they were all sitting down at table they saw come into the hall a very old fairy, whom they had not invited, because it was above fifty years since she had been out of a certain tower, and she was believed to be either dead or enchanted.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	above	above	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
33	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	cop	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	cop	_	_
49	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc:preconj	_	_
50	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	xcomp	_	_
51	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past · progressive | fairies *= fairy* |  |  | table |  | all *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | fairies *= fairy* | table *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* | a old fairy |  | the hall |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **not** **invite** | past · perfect · passive |  | a old fairy |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | hall | fifty years |  |  |  | above *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past · perfect | company | fifty years *not said here* |  | a certain tower |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **believe** | past · passive |  | company |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 8 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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