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title: ‘You are right there,’ said the old woman, and immediately she stood… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You are right there,’ said the old woman, and immediately she stood up, and as they gazed at her in horror she grew gigantic and terrible, her staff turned to a fiery dragon with outstretched wings, her ragged cloak to a golden mantle, and her wooden shoes to two bundles of rockets. Who acts: You, 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 61

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‘You are right there,’ said the old woman, and immediately she stood up, and as they gazed at her in horror she grew gigantic and terrible, her staff turned to a fiery dragon with outstretched wings, her ragged cloak to a golden mantle, and her wooden shoes to two bundles of rockets.

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**Who acts:** You, old woman, Queen, women, staff · **What happens:** be, say, stand up, gaze, grow, turn · **To what, where:** horror, ragged cloak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, old woman, Queen, women), 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:pg7277:15:61
# text = ‘You are right there,’ said the old woman, and immediately she stood up, and as they gazed at her in horror she grew gigantic and terrible, her staff turned to a fiery dragon with outstretched wings, her ragged cloak to a golden mantle, and her wooden shoes to two bundles of rockets.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	right	right	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	outstretched	outstretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
54	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	ccomp	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	58	nummod	_	_
58	bundles	bundle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nmod	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	rockets	rocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | You |  |  |  |  | right, there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand up** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **gaze** | past | women *= woman* |  |  | horror |  | at Queen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 5 | **grow** | past | Queen | horror *not said here* |  |  |  | gigantic *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horror=Theme |
| 6 | **turn** | past | Queen's staff | Queen's ragged cloak to a golden mantle |  |  |  | to a fiery dragon *result*; with outstretched wings | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to dragon=Result |

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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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