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title: As she ceased speaking, the lady of the red hat suddenly disappeared… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As she ceased speaking, the lady of the red hat suddenly disappeared, and of course Jack knew she was a fairy. Who acts: garden, lady. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 43

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As she ceased speaking, the lady of the red hat suddenly disappeared, and of course Jack knew she was a fairy.

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**Who acts:** garden, lady · **What happens:** cease, speak, disappear, know, be · **To what, where:** fairy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden, lady), 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:pg540:16:43
# text = As she ceased speaking, the lady of the red hat suddenly disappeared, and of course Jack knew she was a fairy.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	fixed	_	_
18	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
19	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | past | garden |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | the lady of the red hat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **disappear** | past | the lady of the red hat |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | past | garden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Jack | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of jack=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | past | lady | a fairy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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