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title: But what seemed very strange was that those people who came out of t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But what seemed very strange was that those people who came out of the house were pale and thin, and their clothes were torn, and hanging in rags about them. Who acts: people. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 130

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But what seemed very strange was that those people who came out of the house were pale and thin, and their clothes were torn, and hanging in rags about them.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** seem, come out, be, tear, hang · **To what, where:** clothes, rags

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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:pg503:39:130
# text = But what seemed very strange was that those people who came out of the house were pale and thin, and their clothes were torn, and hanging in rags about them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
8	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **come out** | past | that people |  |  |  |  | of the house; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | that people |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | that people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **tear** | past · passive |  | people's clothes |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **hang** | gerund |  |  |  | rags about people |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rag=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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