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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 84

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At the sight of these wonders even the scolding tongue ceased, and the woman approached, and took the stones in her hand, setting greedily aside those that were the largest and most costly.

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**Who acts:** woman, that · **What happens:** cease, approach, take, set, be, sight · **To what, where:** scolding tongue, sight, stones, hand, those, wonders

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, that), 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:pg5615:36:84
# text = At the sight of these wonders even the scolding tongue ceased, and the woman approached, and took the stones in her hand, setting greedily aside those that were the largest and most costly.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	scolding	scolding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
27	greedily	greedily	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	obj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	36	advmod	_	_
36	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | participle |  | the scolding tongue *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **approach** | past | the woman |  |  | the sight of this wonders  the scolding tongue |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | the woman *not said here* | the stones |  | woman's hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stone=Value in hand=Location |
| 4 | **set** | gerund | the woman *not said here* | those |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient that=Result |
| 5 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **sight** |  |  | this wonders  the scolding tongue |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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