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title: Then she saw a handsome youth standing beside her; who knelt down at… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she saw a handsome youth standing beside her; who knelt down at her feet and kissed the little weary white hands. Who acts: Princess, handsome youth. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 25

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Then she saw a handsome youth standing beside her; who knelt down at her feet and kissed the little weary white hands.

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**Who acts:** Princess, handsome youth · **What happens:** see, stand, kneel down, kiss · **To what, where:** handsome youth, feet, little weary white hands

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, handsome youth), 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:pg640:18:25
# text = Then she saw a handsome youth standing beside her; who knelt down at her feet and kissed the little weary white hands.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	at	at	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	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Princess | a handsome youth |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | a handsome youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beside Princess | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location |
| 3 | **kneel down** | past |  |  |  | Princess's feet |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
| 4 | **kiss** | past | Princess *not said here* | the little weary white hands |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-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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