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title: ‘Look!’ said she; ‘this little box has been lying here for ages, wai… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Look!’ said she; ‘this little box has been lying here for ages, waiting for the man who could win his way through the Ice Kingdom. Who acts: friend, little box, man. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 114

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‘Look!’ said she; ‘this little box has been lying here for ages, waiting for the man who could win his way through the Ice Kingdom.

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**Who acts:** friend, little box, man · **What happens:** look, say, lie, wait, win · **To what, where:** way, Ice Kingdom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, little box, 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:pg641:20:114
# text = ‘Look!’ said she; ‘this little box has been lying here for ages, waiting for the man who could win his way through the Ice Kingdom.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux	_	_
14	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **lie** | present · perfect · progressive | this little box |  |  | here | for ages |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund | this little box *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **win** | could | the man | man's way |  | the Ice Kingdom |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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