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title: And at once the sea-weeds became like the King, who stood looking at… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And at once the sea-weeds became like the King, who stood looking at them in great astonishment, for they were even dressed in a coat like his, but they lay there pale and still as the King himself might have lain if one of the great waves had overtaken him and thrown him senseless upon the shore. W
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 33

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And at once the sea-weeds became like the King, who stood looking at them in great astonishment, for they were even dressed in a coat like his, but they lay there pale and still as the King himself might have lain if one of the great waves had overtaken him and thrown him senseless upon the shore.

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**Who acts:** sea weeds, King, Dwarf · **What happens:** become, stand, look, dress, lie, overtake · **To what, where:** great astonishment, Dwarf, coat, weed, one, shore

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea weeds, King, Dwarf), 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:pg503:7:33
# text = And at once the sea-weeds became like the King, who stood looking at them in great astonishment, for they were even dressed in a coat like his, but they lay there pale and still as the King himself might have lain if one of the great waves had overtaken him and thrown him senseless upon the shore.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
36	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
37	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
39	still	still	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
43	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux	_	_
46	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	conj	_	_
47	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
48	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	_
53	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	overtaken	overtake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	advcl	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	conj	_	_
58	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	_
59	senseless	senseless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	xcomp	_	_
60	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the sea weeds |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | the King *not said here* |  |  | great astonishment |  | at Dwarf | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
| 4 | **dress** | past · passive |  | Dwarf |  | a coat |  | like weed | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **lie** | past | Dwarf |  |  | there |  | pale *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **lie** | might · perfect · passive |  | weed |  |  | still | as the King | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **overtake** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | one of the great waves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **throw** | participle |  | weed |  | the shore |  | senseless *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon shore=Destination |

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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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