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title: Looking up at the Captain of the Guard with her beautiful eyes, she… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking up at the Captain of the Guard with her beautiful eyes, she said gently: Who acts: girl. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 44

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Looking up at the Captain of the Guard with her beautiful eyes, she said gently:

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** look up, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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:pg503:30:44
# text = Looking up at the Captain of the Guard with her beautiful eyes, she said gently:
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Guard	Guard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look up** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with girl's beautiful eyes; at the Captain of the Guard | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at captain=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | girl |  |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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