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title: And out of each flower came a lady and gentleman, each so tiny and p… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And out of each flower came a lady and gentleman, each so tiny and pretty that it was a pleasure to see them. Who acts: lady. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 246

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And out of each flower came a lady and gentleman, each so tiny and pretty that it was a pleasure to see them.

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**Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** come, be, see · **To what, where:** flower, pleasure, ladies

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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 (lady), 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:pg640:47:246
# text = And out of each flower came a lady and gentleman, each so tiny and pretty that it was a pleasure to see them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	appos	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	expl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a lady and gentleman |  |  | each flower |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out flower=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a pleasure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | a lady and gentleman *not said here* | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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