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title: As they were gazing at it, it suddenly split with a loud noise, and… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As they were gazing at it, it suddenly split with a loud noise, and at the same moment the Wicked Queen expired. Who acts: crown, childhood, Wicked Queen. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 40

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As they were gazing at it, it suddenly split with a loud noise, and at the same moment the Wicked Queen expired.

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**Who acts:** crown, childhood, Wicked Queen · **What happens:** gaze, split, expire

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crown, childhood, Wicked 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:pg640:23:40
# text = As they were gazing at it, it suddenly split with a loud noise, and at the same moment the Wicked Queen expired.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Wicked	Wicked	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	expired	expire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past · progressive | crown |  |  |  |  | at childhood | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 2 | **split** | past | childhood |  |  |  |  | with a loud noise; suddenly *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with noise=Instrument |
| 3 | **expire** | past | the Wicked Queen |  |  |  | moment |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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 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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