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title: And lo, and behold I there stood all three dogs--the one with eyes a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And lo, and behold I there stood all three dogs--the one with eyes as large as saucers, the second with eyes as large as mill-wheels, and the third with eyes each as large as the Round Tower of Copenhagen. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box, with its de
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 138

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And lo, and behold I there stood all three dogs--the one with eyes as large as saucers, the second with eyes as large as mill-wheels, and the third with eyes each as large as the Round Tower of Copenhagen.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** three dogs

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg640:46:138
# text = And lo, and behold I there stood all three dogs--the one with eyes as large as saucers, the second with eyes as large as mill-wheels, and the third with eyes each as large as the Round Tower of Copenhagen.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	saucers	saucer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	parataxis	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
38	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	nsubj	_	_
39	as	as	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	Round	Round	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | I | all three dogs |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus |

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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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