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title: Then she took Gon in her arms, and praised and caressed him, and saw… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she took Gon in her arms, and praised and caressed him, and saw that he had the nicest bits to eat, and the softest mats to lie on; and he would have had nothing in the world to wish for if only he could have seen Koma again. Who acts: Princess, Gon. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andre
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 56

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Then she took Gon in her arms, and praised and caressed him, and saw that he had the nicest bits to eat, and the softest mats to lie on; and he would have had nothing in the world to wish for if only he could have seen Koma again.

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**Who acts:** Princess, Gon · **What happens:** take, praise, caress, see, have, eat · **To what, where:** Gon, arms, nicest bits, nothing, world, 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 (Princess, Gon), 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:pg5615:1:56
# text = Then she took Gon in her arms, and praised and caressed him, and saw that he had the nicest bits to eat, and the softest mats to lie on; and he would have had nothing in the world to wish for if only he could have seen Koma again.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Gon	Gon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	caressed	caress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	nicest	nice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	softest	soft	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	mats	mat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux	_	_
38	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	38	obj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl	_	_
45	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
46	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
47	only	only	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	aux	_	_
51	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	ccomp	_	_
52	Koma	Koma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
53	again	again	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Princess | Gon |  | Princess's arms | then |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gon=Value in arm=Location |
| 2 | **praise** | past | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **caress** | past | Princess *not said here* | Gon |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **see** | past | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** | past | Gon | the nicest bits |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient |
| 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Gon *not said here* | the nicest bits *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **lie on** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **have** | would · perfect | Gon | nothing |  | the world |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 9 | **wish** | to-infinitive | Gon *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 10 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | could · perfect | Gon | Koma |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer koma=Stimulus |

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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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