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title: Then Charming was led in, and was so struck with astonishment and ad… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Charming was led in, and was so struck with astonishment and admiration that at first not a word could he say. Who acts: word. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 78

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Then Charming was led in, and was so struck with astonishment and admiration that at first not a word could he say.

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**Who acts:** word · **What happens:** lead in, strike, say · **To what, where:** Charming, astonishment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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:pg503:28:78
# text = Then Charming was led in, and was so struck with astonishment and admiration that at first not a word could he say.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	obl	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead in** | past · passive |  | Charming |  |  | then |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **strike** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with astonishment and admiration | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: with astonishment=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | could | a word | astonishment and admiration |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |

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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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