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title: She was such a little dear altogether, and blinked her eyes so daint… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was such a little dear altogether, and blinked her eyes so daintily, and ate her supper so tidily, and when she had finished she licked her pink nose so delicately with her little tongue, that her mistress was never tired of saying, ‘Koma, Koma, what should I do without you?’ Who acts: Cat, mist
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 33

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She was such a little dear altogether, and blinked her eyes so daintily, and ate her supper so tidily, and when she had finished she licked her pink nose so delicately with her little tongue, that her mistress was never tired of saying, ‘Koma, Koma, what should I do without you?’

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**Who acts:** Cat, mistress, I · **What happens:** be, blink, eat, finish, lick, not be · **To what, where:** eyes, supper, pink nose, Koma · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat, mistress, I), 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:pg5615:1:33
# text = She was such a little dear altogether, and blinked her eyes so daintily, and ate her supper so tidily, and when she had finished she licked her pink nose so delicately with her little tongue, that her mistress was never tired of saying, ‘Koma, Koma, what should I do without you?’
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	6	det:predet	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	blinked	blink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	daintily	daintily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	tidily	tidily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	licked	lick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	delicately	delicately	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
46	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
47	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	Koma	Koma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	Koma	Koma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	57	obj	_	_
55	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	conj	_	_
58	without	without	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Cat |  |  |  |  | altogether, dear *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **blink** | past | Cat *not said here* | Cat's eyes |  |  |  | daintily *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | past | Cat *not said here* | Cat's supper |  |  |  | tidily *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient |
| 4 | **finish** | past · perfect | Cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **lick** | past | Cat | Cat's pink nose |  |  |  | with Cat's little tongue | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nose=Experiencer with tongue=Instrument |
| 6 | **not** **is** | past | Cat's mistress |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Cat's mistress *not said here* | Koma and Koma |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent koma=Topic |
| 8 | **do** | should | I | Koma and Koma |  |  |  | without you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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