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title: When they saw his tiny stature anti simple attire the strangers look… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they saw his tiny stature anti simple attire the strangers looked at each other doubtfully, not knowing whether to accept or refuse him. Who acts: names, strangers. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 44

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When they saw his tiny stature anti simple attire the strangers looked at each other doubtfully, not knowing whether to accept or refuse him.

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**Who acts:** names, strangers · **What happens:** see, look, not know, accept, refuse · **To what, where:** tiny stature, Prince

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (names, strangers), 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:pg7277:14:44
# text = When they saw his tiny stature anti simple attire the strangers looked at each other doubtfully, not knowing whether to accept or refuse him.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	anti	anti	ADV	AFX	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	attire	attire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	12	obl	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	doubtfully	doubtfully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | names *= name* | Prince's tiny stature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | past | the strangers |  |  |  |  | at each; doubtfully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **know** | gerund | the strangers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **accept** | to-infinitive | the strangers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **refuse** | infinitive | the strangers *not said here* | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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