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title: And he began playing so enchantingly that the poor man stood there a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And he began playing so enchantingly that the poor man stood there as if bewitched, and his heart leapt for joy as he listened. Who acts: last, poor man. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 64

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And he began playing so enchantingly that the poor man stood there as if bewitched, and his heart leapt for joy as he listened.

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**Who acts:** last, poor man · **What happens:** begin, play, stand, bewitch, listen · **To what, where:** heart leapt

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, poor man), 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:pg540:50:64
# text = And he began playing so enchantingly that the poor man stood there as if bewitched, and his heart leapt for joy as he listened.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	enchantingly	enchantingly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	leapt	leapt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | last | last's heart leapt for joy |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | last *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enchantingly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the poor man |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bewitch** | participle | the poor man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **listen** | past | last |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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