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title: ‘Mirror, mirror, hanging there, Who in all the land’s most fair?’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Mirror, mirror, hanging there, Who in all the land’s most fair?’ Who acts: Mirror. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 110

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‘Mirror, mirror, hanging there, Who in all the land’s most fair?’

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**Who acts:** Mirror · **What happens:** hang

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mirror), 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:pg540:47:110
# text = ‘Mirror, mirror, hanging there, Who in all the land’s most fair?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | gerund | Mirror and mirror *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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