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title: The sight of so much beauty and magnificence almost took his breath… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sight of so much beauty and magnificence almost took his breath away for an instant, but, recovering himself with an effort, he said: Who acts: sight. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 24

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The sight of so much beauty and magnificence almost took his breath away for an instant, but, recovering himself with an effort, he said:

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**Who acts:** sight · **What happens:** take away, recover, say, sight · **To what, where:** breath, sight, much beauty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (sight), 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:pg7277:16:24
# text = The sight of so much beauty and magnificence almost took his breath away for an instant, but, recovering himself with an effort, he said:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	recovering	recover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	ccomp	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take away** | past | the sight of much beauty and magnificence | sight's breath |  |  |  | for a instant; almost, away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
| 2 | **recover** | gerund |  | sight |  |  |  | with a effort | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sight |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | much beauty and magnificence |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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