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title: When he saw them all so beautiful and so gay he embraced them tender… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he saw them all so beautiful and so gay he embraced them tenderly, but gave Miranda more kisses than either of the others. Who acts: eldest, gay. 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 7

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When he saw them all so beautiful and so gay he embraced them tenderly, but gave Miranda more kisses than either of the others.

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**Who acts:** eldest, gay · **What happens:** see, embrace, give · **To what, where:** Princesses, more kisses, Miranda

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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 (eldest, gay), 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:pg503:30:7
# text = When he saw them all so beautiful and so gay he embraced them tenderly, but gave Miranda more kisses than either of the others.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	gay	gay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	iobj	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	kisses	kiss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | eldest *= eld* | Princesses *= princess* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **embrace** | past | gay | Princesses *= princess* |  |  |  | tenderly *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **give** | past | eldest *= eld* *not said here* | more kisses | Miranda |  |  | than either | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent miranda=Recipient kiss=Theme |

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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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