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title: He opened his eyes wide with amazement when he saw the remarkable tr… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He opened his eyes wide with amazement when he saw the remarkable trio fastened on to the swan’s tail. Who acts: circus. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 39

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He opened his eyes wide with amazement when he saw the remarkable trio fastened on to the swan’s tail.

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**Who acts:** circus · **What happens:** open, see, fasten on · **To what, where:** eyes, remarkable trio

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (circus), 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:pg7277:23:39
# text = He opened his eyes wide with amazement when he saw the remarkable trio fastened on to the swan’s tail.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	trio	trio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | circus | circus's eyes |  |  |  | with amazement; wide *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with amazement=Instrument |
| 2 | **see** | past | circus | the remarkable trio |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trio=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fasten on** | participle |  | the remarkable trio *not said here* |  |  |  | to the swan's tail | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to tail=Co-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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