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title: While she was speaking, they found themselves in Suliman’s hall, and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: While she was speaking, they found themselves in Suliman’s hall, and his delight was great at seeing his dear master once more. Who acts: fairy, children, delight, Suliman. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 160

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While she was speaking, they found themselves in Suliman’s hall, and his delight was great at seeing his dear master once more.

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**Who acts:** fairy, children, delight, Suliman · **What happens:** speak, find, be, see, delight · **To what, where:** children, hall, dear master · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (fairy, children, delight, Suliman), 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:pg503:39:160
# text = While she was speaking, they found themselves in Suliman’s hall, and his delight was great at seeing his dear master once more.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Suliman	Suliman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
19	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	advmod	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · progressive | fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past | children *= child* | children *= child* |  | Suliman's hall |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | Suliman's delight |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | Suliman's delight *not said here* | Suliman's dear master |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus |
| 5 | **delight** |  | Suliman |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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