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title: Luckily she only found his wife at home, who was much struck by the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Luckily she only found his wife at home, who was much struck by the Princess’s youth and beauty and sweet gentle manners, and still further impressed by the present of the shining pebble. Who acts: heroine, youth. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 72

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Luckily she only found his wife at home, who was much struck by the Princess’s youth and beauty and sweet gentle manners, and still further impressed by the present of the shining pebble.

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**Who acts:** heroine, youth · **What happens:** find, strike, shine · **To what, where:** wife, home

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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 (heroine, 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:pg640:23:72
# text = Luckily she only found his wife at home, who was much struck by the Princess’s youth and beauty and sweet gentle manners, and still further impressed by the present of the shining pebble.
1	Luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	impressed	impressed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	amod	_	_
36	pebble	pebble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | heroine | bird's wife |  | home |  | luckily *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent wife=Theme at home=Asset |
| 2 | **strike** | past · passive | the Princess's youth and beauty and sweet gentle manners | home |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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