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title: One day Rosalie was sitting alone in her room thinking of her troubl… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day Rosalie was sitting alone in her room thinking of her troubles when she suddenly saw a pen get up from off the desk and begin to write all by itself on a sheet of white paper. Who acts: Rosalie, thinking. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 57

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One day Rosalie was sitting alone in her room thinking of her troubles when she suddenly saw a pen get up from off the desk and begin to write all by itself on a sheet of white paper.

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**Who acts:** Rosalie, thinking · **What happens:** sit, think, see, get up, begin, write · **To what, where:** room, pen, desk, sheet

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosalie, thinking), 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:pg640:16:57
# text = One day Rosalie was sitting alone in her room thinking of her troubles when she suddenly saw a pen get up from off the desk and begin to write all by itself on a sheet of white paper.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	csubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	all	all	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | Rosalie |  |  | Rosalie's room | day | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of Rosalie's troubles | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | Rosalie | a pen |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pen=Stimulus |
| 4 | **get up** | present | thinking |  |  | the desk |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from desk=Destination |
| 5 | **begin** | infinitive | thinking *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **write** | to-infinitive | thinking *not said here* |  |  | a sheet of white paper |  | by desk | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on sheet=Destination |
| 7 | **trouble** |  | Rosalie |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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