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description: While he was away she looked about her in the hut a little more closely, and found a tub full of shirts stained with blood, lying among water. Who acts: man, queen. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 76

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While he was away she looked about her in the hut a little more closely, and found a tub full of shirts stained with blood, lying among water.

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**Who acts:** man, queen · **What happens:** be, look, find, stain, lie · **To what, where:** hut, tub, shirts, water

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, queen), 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:pg5615:33:76
# text = While he was away she looked about her in the hut a little more closely, and found a tub full of shirts stained with blood, lying among water.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advcl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
15	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	stained	stain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
29	among	among	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	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 | man |  |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | past | queen |  |  | the hut |  | about Peter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | queen *not said here* | a tub |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tub=Topic |
| 4 | **stain** | participle |  | shirts *not said here* |  |  |  | with blood | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blood=Theme |
| 5 | **lie** | gerund | queen *not said here* |  |  | water |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among water=Location |

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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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