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description: Felicia, who was very gentle, said nothing, but stood up crying quietly; while Bruno, for that was her brother’s name, sat comfortably by the fire. Who acts: Felicia, that. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 11

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Felicia, who was very gentle, said nothing, but stood up crying quietly; while Bruno, for that was her brother’s name, sat comfortably by the fire.

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**Who acts:** Felicia, that · **What happens:** be, say, stand up, cry, sit · **To what, where:** nothing, Bruno · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Felicia, that), 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:pg503:22:11
# text = Felicia, who was very gentle, said nothing, but stood up crying quietly; while Bruno, for that was her brother’s name, sat comfortably by the fire.
1	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	Bruno	Bruno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Felicia |  |  |  |  | gentle *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Felicia | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 3 | **stand up** | past | Felicia *not said here* | Bruno |  |  |  | for Felicia's brother's name | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Felicia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | 's Felicia's brother | tree rules |
| 6 | **sit** | past | Felicia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the fire; comfortably *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location |

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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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