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title: Then she peeped in and saw such a beautiful youth all shining with g… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she peeped in and saw such a beautiful youth all shining with gold and precious stones that she fell in love with him on the spot. Who acts: princess, all, precious stones. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 37

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Then she peeped in and saw such a beautiful youth all shining with gold and precious stones that she fell in love with him on the spot.

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**Who acts:** princess, all, precious stones · **What happens:** peep, see, shine, fall · **To what, where:** beautiful youth, love · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, all, precious stones), 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:pg640:8:37
# text = Then she peeped in and saw such a beautiful youth all shining with gold and precious stones that she fell in love with him on the spot.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	10	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	ccomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peep** | past | princess |  |  |  | then |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | princess *not said here* | such beautiful youth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | all |  |  |  |  | with gold and precious stones | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | precious stones |  |  | love |  | with iron; on the spot | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=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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