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title: She looked up, and when she saw the King’s son gazing in at her, she… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She looked up, and when she saw the King’s son gazing in at her, she blushed red all over, cast down her eyes and span on. Who acts: girl, son. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 20

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She looked up, and when she saw the King’s son gazing in at her, she blushed red all over, cast down her eyes and span on.

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**Who acts:** girl, son · **What happens:** look up, see, gaze, blush, cast down, span on · **To what, where:** son, eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, son), 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:pg7277:44:20
# text = She looked up, and when she saw the King’s son gazing in at her, she blushed red all over, cast down her eyes and span on.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	blushed	blush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	red	red	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	over	over	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	parataxis	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	span	span	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look up** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past | girl | the King's son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gaze** | gerund | the King's son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at girl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 4 | **blush** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | over, red *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cast down** | participle |  | girl's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Product |
| 6 | **span on** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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