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title: Outwardly it looked beautiful, white with red cheeks, so that everyo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Outwardly it looked beautiful, white with red cheeks, so that everyone who saw it longed to eat it, but anyone who might do so would certainly die on the spot. Who acts: apple, everyone, anyone. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 233

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Outwardly it looked beautiful, white with red cheeks, so that everyone who saw it longed to eat it, but anyone who might do so would certainly die on the spot.

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**Who acts:** apple, everyone, anyone · **What happens:** look, see, long, eat, do, die · **To what, where:** apple, spot

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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 (apple, everyone, anyone), 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:pg540:47:233
# text = Outwardly it looked beautiful, white with red cheeks, so that everyone who saw it longed to eat it, but anyone who might do so would certainly die on the spot.
1	Outwardly	outwardly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
23	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	30	nsubj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | apple |  |  |  |  | beautiful, outwardly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past |  | apple |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **long** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* | apple |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **do** | might |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **die** | would | anyone |  |  | the spot |  | certainly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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