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title: Ugh! there sat the dog with eyes as big as saucers glaring at him. — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ugh! there sat the dog with eyes as big as saucers glaring at him. Who acts: saucers. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 39

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Ugh! there sat the dog with eyes as big as saucers glaring at him.

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**Who acts:** saucers · **What happens:** sit, glare · **To what, where:** dog

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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 (saucers), 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:pg640:46:39
# text = Ugh! there sat the dog with eyes as big as saucers glaring at him.
1	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	saucers	saucer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	glaring	glare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | the dog |  | there |  | with eyes | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme |
| 2 | **glare** | gerund | saucers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at soldier | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=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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