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title: In allowing herself to be seen, she appeared to think that she was d… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In allowing herself to be seen, she appeared to think that she was doing all that could possibly be required of her. Who acts: Sylvia. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 14

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In allowing herself to be seen, she appeared to think that she was doing all that could possibly be required of her.

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**Who acts:** Sylvia · **What happens:** allow, see, appear, think, do, require · **To what, where:** Sylvia, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvia), 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:pg7277:10:14
# text = In allowing herself to be seen, she appeared to think that she was doing all that could possibly be required of her.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	allowing	allow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | gerund | Sylvia *not said here* | Sylvia |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | Sylvia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **appear** | past | Sylvia |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Sylvia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past · progressive | Sylvia |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **require** | could · passive |  | that |  |  |  | of Sylvia; possibly *property* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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