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title: As soon as she saw it, she exclaimed: ‘This is the most beautiful li… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as she saw it, she exclaimed: ‘This is the most beautiful little dog I have ever seen. Who acts: mother, This, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 40

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As soon as she saw it, she exclaimed: ‘This is the most beautiful little dog I have ever seen.

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**Who acts:** mother, This, I · **What happens:** see, exclaim, be · **To what, where:** dog, beautiful little dog

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, This, I), 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:pg641:36:40
# text = As soon as she saw it, she exclaimed: ‘This is the most beautiful little dog I have ever seen.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | mother | dog |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | This | the beautiful little dog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | present · perfect | I | the beautiful little dog *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=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 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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