--- title: The beautiful girl sat down near him, stroking his hideous head, and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The beautiful girl sat down near him, stroking his hideous head, and said in a sweet coaxing voice: ‘You know everything in the world. Who acts: beautiful girl, You. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/120/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/) / 120 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 120 The beautiful girl sat down near him, stroking his hideous head, and said in a sweet coaxing voice: ‘You know everything in the world. **Who acts:** beautiful girl, You · **What happens:** sit down, stroke, say, coax, know · **To what, where:** hideous head, sweet, voice, everything, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful girl, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:4:120 # text = The beautiful girl sat down near him, stroking his hideous head, and said in a sweet coaxing voice: ‘You know everything in the world. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 near near ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 stroking stroke VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 hideous hideous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sweet sweet NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 coaxing coax VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 xcomp _ _ 20 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 25 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 24 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit down** | past | the beautiful girl | | | | | near sun | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location | | 2 | **stroke** | gerund | the beautiful girl *not said here* | sun's hideous head | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the beautiful girl *not said here* | | | a sweet | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **coax** | gerund | the beautiful girl *not said here* | voice | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | | 5 | **know** | present | You | everything | | the world | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/121/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/)