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title: But there, to her astonishment, she found a tiny little man sitting… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But there, to her astonishment, she found a tiny little man sitting in the middle of the flower, as white and transparent as if he were made of glass; he had the prettiest golden crown on his head, and the most beautiful wings on his shoulders; he himself was no bigger than Thumbelina. Who acts: flo
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 237

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But there, to her astonishment, she found a tiny little man sitting in the middle of the flower, as white and transparent as if he were made of glass; he had the prettiest golden crown on his head, and the most beautiful wings on his shoulders; he himself was no bigger than Thumbelina.

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**Who acts:** flower, tiny little man, man · **What happens:** find, sit, make, have, not be, astonish · **To what, where:** tiny little man, middle, man, prettiest golden crown, head

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower, tiny little man, man), 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:pg640:47:237
# text = But there, to her astonishment, she found a tiny little man sitting in the middle of the flower, as white and transparent as if he were made of glass; he had the prettiest golden crown on his head, and the most beautiful wings on his shoulders; he himself was no bigger than Thumbelina.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	transparent	transparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	amod	_	_
38	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	47	advmod	_	_
47	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
54	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	53	nmod:unmarked	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
56	no	no	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	_
58	than	than	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | flower | a tiny little man |  | there |  | to flower's astonishment | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | a tiny little man *not said here* |  |  | the middle of the flower |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location |
| 3 | **make** | past · passive |  | man |  |  |  | of glass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **have** | past | man | the prettiest golden crown |  | man's head |  | the beautiful wings on man's shoulders *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | than Thumbelina; big *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **astonish** |  | flower |  |  |  |  |  | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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