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title: Just as before, a noble lady happened to see her passing her window,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Just as before, a noble lady happened to see her passing her window, and called out to her, ‘Where are you going all alone, my pretty girl?’ Who acts: noble lady, mistress, you. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 98

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Just as before, a noble lady happened to see her passing her window, and called out to her, ‘Where are you going all alone, my pretty girl?’

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**Who acts:** noble lady, mistress, you · **What happens:** happen, see, pass, call out, go · **To what, where:** mistress, window

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noble lady, mistress, you), 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:pg5615:18:98
# text = Just as before, a noble lady happened to see her passing her window, and called out to her, ‘Where are you going all alone, my pretty girl?’
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	before	before	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | a noble lady |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | a noble lady *not said here* | mistress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | gerund | mistress *not said here* | mistress's window |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=Trajectory |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | a noble lady *not said here* |  | mistress |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 5 | **go** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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