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title: She stepped out of her carriage to look more closely at the wonderfu… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She stepped out of her carriage to look more closely at the wonderful sight, and laughed again over the capers the poor captives cut. Who acts: Princess, poor captives. 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 56

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She stepped out of her carriage to look more closely at the wonderful sight, and laughed again over the capers the poor captives cut.

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**Who acts:** Princess, poor captives · **What happens:** step out, look, laugh, cut · **To what, where:** carriage, capers

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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 (Princess, poor captives), 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:pg7277:23:56
# text = She stepped out of her carriage to look more closely at the wonderful sight, and laughed again over the capers the poor captives cut.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	capers	caper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	captives	captive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step out** | past | Princess | Princess's carriage |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location carriage=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the wonderful sight; closely *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sight=Theme |
| 3 | **laugh** | past | Princess *not said here* |  |  | the capers | again |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cut** | present | the poor captives | the capers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset caper=Product |

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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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