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title: One day the woman stood at the window overlooking the garden, and sa… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day the woman stood at the window overlooking the garden, and saw there a bed full of the finest rampion: the leaves looked so fresh and green that she longed to eat them. Who acts: woman, window, leaves, garden. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers, with its de
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 99

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One day the woman stood at the window overlooking the garden, and saw there a bed full of the finest rampion: the leaves looked so fresh and green that she longed to eat them.

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**Who acts:** woman, window, leaves, garden · **What happens:** stand, overlook, see, look, long, eat · **To what, where:** window, garden, bed, leaves

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, window, leaves, garden), 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:pg540:41:99
# text = One day the woman stood at the window overlooking the garden, and saw there a bed full of the finest rampion: the leaves looked so fresh and green that she longed to eat them.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	overlooking	overlook	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	rampion	rampion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the woman |  |  | the window | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location |
| 2 | **overlook** | gerund | the window *not said here* | the garden |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | the woman *not said here* | a bed |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bed=Stimulus |
| 4 | **look** | past | the leaves |  |  |  |  | fresh *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **long** | past | garden |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | garden *not said here* | leaves *= leaf* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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