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title: ‘His tame sweetheart is a widow and hops about with a bit of black c… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘His tame sweetheart is a widow and hops about with a bit of black crape round her leg. Who acts: tame sweetheart, widow. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 146

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‘His tame sweetheart is a widow and hops about with a bit of black crape round her leg.

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**Who acts:** tame sweetheart, widow · **What happens:** be, hop about · **To what, where:** widow, leg

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tame sweetheart, widow), 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:pg5615:10:146
# text = ‘His tame sweetheart is a widow and hops about with a bit of black crape round her leg.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hops	hop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	crape	crape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	round	round	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | crow's tame sweetheart | a widow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hop about** | present | a widow |  |  | widow's leg |  | with a bit of black crape; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round leg=Trajectory |

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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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