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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 65

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They came in sight of the church beyond the Jordan, and, to their great joy, beheld the hermit just arriving at the door.

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**Who acts:** nuns, great joy · **What happens:** come, behold, arrive, sight, joy · **To what, where:** sight, hermit, door, church

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuns, great joy), 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:pg641:40:65
# text = They came in sight of the church beyond the Jordan, and, to their great joy, beheld the hermit just arriving at the door.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	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 | **come** | past | nuns *= nun* |  |  | sight of the church beyond the Jordan |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location |
| 2 | **behold** | past | nuns's great joy | the hermit |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hermit=Stimulus |
| 3 | **arrive** | gerund | nuns's great joy *not said here* |  |  | the door |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | the church beyond the Jordan |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **joy** |  | nuns *= nun* |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling 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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