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title: He looked down into the barrel then, and saw lying at the bottom an… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 13

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He looked down into the barrel then, and saw lying at the bottom an unusually beautiful gold ring, which pleased him so much that he could not take his eyes off it.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** look down, see, lie, not take · **To what, where:** beautiful gold ring, bottom, eyes, barrel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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:pg640:42:13
# text = He looked down into the barrel then, and saw lying at the bottom an unusually beautiful gold ring, which pleased him so much that he could not take his eyes off it.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	unusually	unusually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	off	off	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **look down** | past | Prince |  |  |  | then | into the barrel; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into barrel=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Prince *not said here* | a beautiful gold ring  pleased |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the bottom |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location |
| 4 | **not** **take** | could | Prince | Prince's eyes |  | barrel |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off it=Initial\_Location |

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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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