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title: She was very proud of their beauty, and perhaps talked about them to… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was very proud of their beauty, and perhaps talked about them to her neighbours more than she need have done, till at last everybody for miles round knew where the three prettiest baby doves in the whole country-side were to be found. Who acts: Dove. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 29

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She was very proud of their beauty, and perhaps talked about them to her neighbours more than she need have done, till at last everybody for miles round knew where the three prettiest baby doves in the whole country-side were to be found.

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**Who acts:** Dove · **What happens:** be, talk, need, do, know, find · **To what, where:** more, everybody, three prettiest baby doves

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dove), 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:pg5615:34:29
# text = She was very proud of their beauty, and perhaps talked about them to her neighbours more than she need have done, till at last everybody for miles round knew where the three prettiest baby doves in the whole country-side were to be found.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	obj	_	_
18	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	31	obl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	round	round	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	47	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
35	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	amod	_	_
36	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
40	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
41	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Dove |  |  |  |  | of Leroux's beauty; proud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | past |  | more |  |  |  | about Leroux; perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** | present | Dove |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | infinitive · perfect | Dove *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **know** | past |  |  |  | everybody |  | round *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **find** | past · passive |  | the three prettiest baby doves in the whole country side |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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