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title: He would have continued gazing much longer at this remarkable curios… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He would have continued gazing much longer at this remarkable curiosity had not the voice desired him to turn round and look at the crystal coffin which stood opposite. Who acts: voice, crystal coffin. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 38

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He would have continued gazing much longer at this remarkable curiosity had not the voice desired him to turn round and look at the crystal coffin which stood opposite.

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**Who acts:** voice, crystal coffin · **What happens:** continue, gaze, have, desire, turn round, look · **To what, where:** floor, remarkable curiosity, opposite

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, crystal coffin), 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:pg7277:45:38
# text = He would have continued gazing much longer at this remarkable curiosity had not the voice desired him to turn round and look at the crystal coffin which stood opposite.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	round	round	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | would · perfect · passive |  | floor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gaze** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past |  |  |  | this remarkable curiosity |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **desire** | past | the voice | floor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn round** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **look** | infinitive | the voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the crystal coffin | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at coffin=Theme |
| 7 | **stand** | past | the crystal coffin | opposite |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opposite=Stimulus |

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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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