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title: She thought, ‘Alas! what am I coming to?’ and peeped through the win… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She thought, ‘Alas! what am I coming to?’ and peeped through the window; but she saw nothing inside except big and little toads, and a table beautifully spread with roast meats and wine, and all the dishes and drinking-cups were of silver. Who acts: princess, I, dishes. A sentence of «The Yellow Fai
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 49

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She thought, ‘Alas! what am I coming to?’ and peeped through the window; but she saw nothing inside except big and little toads, and a table beautifully spread with roast meats and wine, and all the dishes and drinking-cups were of silver.

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**Who acts:** princess, I, dishes · **What happens:** think, come, peep, see, spread, be · **To what, where:** nothing, table · **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, I, dishes), 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:pg640:8:49
# text = She thought, ‘Alas! what am I coming to?’ and peeped through the window; but she saw nothing inside except big and little toads, and a table beautifully spread with roast meats and wine, and all the dishes and drinking-cups were of silver.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	obj	_	_
24	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	except	except	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	toads	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
34	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	meats	meat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
43	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	45	det:predet	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	_
50	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme |
| 3 | **peep** | past | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through the window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | princess | nothing |  |  |  | except big toads | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 5 | **spread** | present |  | a table |  |  |  | with roast meats and wine; beautifully *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent table=Destination with meat=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | all dishes and drinking cups |  |  |  |  | of silver | tree rules |

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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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