--- title: To gain time to remember at least part of it, he made several low bo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: To gain time to remember at least part of it, he made several low bows to the Princess, who on her side dropped half-a-dozen curtseys without stopping to think, and then said, to relieve his evident embarrassment: Who acts: Fanfaronade, several low bows. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fanfaronade, several low bows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:3:81 # text = To gain time to remember at least part of it, he made several low bows to the Princess, who on her side dropped half-a-dozen curtseys without stopping to think, and then said, to relieve his evident embarrassment: 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 gain gain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 nmod _ _ 8 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 14 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 bows bow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 25 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 26 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 dozen dozen NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 curtseys curtsey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 32 without without SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 stopping stop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 39 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 relieve relieve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 ccomp _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 44 evident evident ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 embarrassment embarrassment NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 : : PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gain** | to-infinitive | | | | | time | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **remember** | to-infinitive | | part of part | | least | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 3 | **make** | past | Fanfaronade | several low bows | | | | to the Princess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Product | | 4 | **drop** | past | several low bows | half and dozen curtseys | | Princess's side | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent half=Theme on side=Destination | | 5 | **stop** | gerund | several low bows *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | several low bows *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fanfaronade *not said here* | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **relieve** | to-infinitive | | Fanfaronade's evident embarrassment | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus embarrassment=Experiencer | | 9 | **embarrass** | | Fanfaronade | | | | | | nom embarrassment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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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