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title: Now the Seagull was seated at the window, mending her net, and from… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Seagull was seated at the window, mending her net, and from time to time her eyes wandered to the sea as if she was expecting someone. Who acts: eyes, Seagull. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 329

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Now the Seagull was seated at the window, mending her net, and from time to time her eyes wandered to the sea as if she was expecting someone.

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**Who acts:** eyes, Seagull · **What happens:** seat, mend, wander, expect · **To what, where:** Seagull, window, net, sea, someone

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Seagull), 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:pg7277:22:329
# text = Now the Seagull was seated at the window, mending her net, and from time to time her eyes wandered to the sea as if she was expecting someone.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Seagull	Seagull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mending	mend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
30	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past · passive |  | the Seagull |  | the window |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 2 | **mend** | gerund |  | Seagull's net |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wander** | past | Seagull's eyes |  |  | the sea | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination |
| 4 | **expect** | past · progressive | Seagull | someone |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=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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