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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 76

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By the time she reached the emperor’s court, Fet-Fruners looked a young man all over in the eyes of everyone; and even the mother of the genius would now have had her doubts set at rest.

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**Who acts:** princess, Fet, doubts · **What happens:** reach, look, have, set, doubt · **To what, where:** court, young man, eyes, rest

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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 (princess, Fet, doubts), 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:pg641:40:76
# text = By the time she reached the emperor’s court, Fet-Fruners looked a young man all over in the eyes of everyone; and even the mother of the genius would now have had her doubts set at rest.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	Fet	Fet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Fruners	Fruners	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	over	over	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	advcl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
36	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	doubts	doubt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | princess | the emperor's court |  |  | time |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent court=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | Fet | a young man |  | the eyes of everyone |  | over *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | would · perfect |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **set** | present | princess's doubts |  |  | rest |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at rest=Destination |
| 5 | **doubt** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom doubt «cognition 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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