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title: One day, however, she had been amusing herself by making sweetmeats,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, however, she had been amusing herself by making sweetmeats, when two of the young princes looked in to pay her a visit. Who acts: princess, two. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 51

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One day, however, she had been amusing herself by making sweetmeats, when two of the young princes looked in to pay her a visit.

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**Who acts:** princess, two · **What happens:** amuse, make, look, pay · **To what, where:** princess, sweetmeats

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (princess, two), 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:pg641:39:51
# text = One day, however, she had been amusing herself by making sweetmeats, when two of the young princes looked in to pay her a visit.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
9	amusing	amuse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **amuse** | past · perfect · progressive | princess | princess |  |  | day | however *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | princess *not said here* | sweetmeats |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sweetmeat=Product |
| 3 | **look** | past | two of the young princes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pay** | to-infinitive | two of the young princes *not said here* |  | princess |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient visit=Asset |

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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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