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title: And standing among the flowers were lovely maidens who called to him… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And standing among the flowers were lovely maidens who called to him in soft voices, till he had to shut his eyes against their spells. Who acts: lovely maidens, Petru, eyes. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 147

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And standing among the flowers were lovely maidens who called to him in soft voices, till he had to shut his eyes against their spells.

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**Who acts:** lovely maidens, Petru, eyes · **What happens:** stand, be, call, have, shut, spell · **To what, where:** lovely maidens, Petru, soft voices, eyes · **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 (lovely maidens, Petru, eyes), 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:pg641:20:147
# text = And standing among the flowers were lovely maidens who called to him in soft voices, till he had to shut his eyes against their spells.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	against	against	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | lovely maidens |  |  |  | among the flowers | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | past | lovely maidens |  | Petru | soft voices |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **have** | past | Petru |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shut** | to-infinitive | Petru *not said here* | Petru's eyes |  |  |  | against eyes's spells | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 6 | **spell** |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state 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 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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