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title: All of a sudden he saw a girl going towards a little house, and as h… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All of a sudden he saw a girl going towards a little house, and as he drew nearer he remarked that she was both young and pretty. Who acts: All, girl, son. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 3

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All of a sudden he saw a girl going towards a little house, and as he drew nearer he remarked that she was both young and pretty.

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**Who acts:** All, girl, son · **What happens:** see, go, draw, remark, be · **To what, where:** girl, little house

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, 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:pg7277:47:3
# text = All of a sudden he saw a girl going towards a little house, and as he drew nearer he remarked that she was both young and pretty.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	nmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
19	nearer	near	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc:preconj	_	_
26	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | All | a girl |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | a girl *not said here* |  |  | a little house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards house=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **draw** | past | son |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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