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title: Everyone who met him stared and looked after him, for he was flying… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Everyone who met him stared and looked after him, for he was flying like a madman, and he could not have looked worse if a herd of rams had been butting at him all night long. Who acts: Everyone, attorney, herd. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2, with its de
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 75

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Everyone who met him stared and looked after him, for he was flying like a madman, and he could not have looked worse if a herd of rams had been butting at him all night long.

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**Who acts:** Everyone, attorney, herd · **What happens:** meet, stare, look, fly, not look, butt · **To what, where:** attorney

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everyone, attorney, herd), 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:pg503:18:75
# text = Everyone who met him stared and looked after him, for he was flying like a madman, and he could not have looked worse if a herd of rams had been butting at him all night long.
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	madman	madman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
25	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	rams	ram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux	_	_
33	butting	butt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
37	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past |  | attorney |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **stare** | past | Everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | past | Everyone *not said here* |  |  |  | after attorney |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fly** | past · progressive | attorney |  |  |  |  | like a madman | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **look** | could · perfect | attorney |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **butt** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · progressive | a herd of rams |  |  |  | night | at attorney; long *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at he=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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