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title: Then, turning my head that way as well as the pegs and strings would… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, turning my head that way as well as the pegs and strings would let me, I saw a stage set up, about a foot and a half from the ground, with two or three ladders to mount it. Who acts: turning, I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 35

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Then, turning my head that way as well as the pegs and strings would let me, I saw a stage set up, about a foot and a half from the ground, with two or three ladders to mount it.

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**Who acts:** turning, I · **What happens:** turn, let, see, set up, mount · **To what, where:** head, me, stage

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turning, I), 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:pg503:43:35
# text = Then, turning my head that way as well as the pegs and strings would let me, I saw a stage set up, about a foot and a half from the ground, with two or three ladders to mount it.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	12	cc	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	fixed	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pegs	peg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	28	conj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	conj	_	_
40	ladders	ladder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	parataxis	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	mount	mount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund |  | my head |  |  |  | that way *obl:unmarked* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | would | turning | me |  |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | I | a stage |  |  |  | about a foot and a half from the ground | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stage=Stimulus |
| 4 | **set up** | participle |  | a stage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **mount** | to-infinitive | turning *not said here* | stage |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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