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title: Sure enough there sat the dog with eyes as large as mill-wheels. — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sure enough there sat the dog with eyes as large as mill-wheels. 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 41

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Sure enough there sat the dog with eyes as large as mill-wheels.

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**What happens:** sit · **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: 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:pg640:46:41
# text = Sure enough there sat the dog with eyes as large as mill-wheels.
1	Sure	sure	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
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	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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; sure *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=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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