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title: At the sight of her, looking so changed by all that she had suffered… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the sight of her, looking so changed by all that she had suffered for his sake, his heart was moved by such love and longing and by so great a pity that he suddenly became a man. Who acts: woman, such love, husband. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with its de
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 188

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At the sight of her, looking so changed by all that she had suffered for his sake, his heart was moved by such love and longing and by so great a pity that he suddenly became a man.

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**Who acts:** woman, such love, husband · **What happens:** look, change, suffer, move, become, sight · **To what, where:** heart, man, woman

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, such love, husband), 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:pg540:12:188
# text = At the sight of her, looking so changed by all that she had suffered for his sake, his heart was moved by such love and longing and by so great a pity that he suddenly became a man.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at the sight of woman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sight=Theme |
| 2 | **change** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **suffer** | past · perfect | woman |  |  |  |  | for husband's sake | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **move** | past · passive | such love and longing and a great pity | husband's heart |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 5 | **become** | past | husband | a man |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient pity=Result |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | woman |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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