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title: At first the sight of them renewed her grief; but presently their ch… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At first the sight of them renewed her grief; but presently their charms so gained upon her that she forgot her melancholy in providing them with nursery-maids, cradle-rockers, and ladies-in-waiting, and in sending hither and thither for swings and dolls and tops, and bushels of the finest sweetmeat
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 118

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At first the sight of them renewed her grief; but presently their charms so gained upon her that she forgot her melancholy in providing them with nursery-maids, cradle-rockers, and ladies-in-waiting, and in sending hither and thither for swings and dolls and tops, and bushels of the finest sweetmeats.

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**Who acts:** sight, charms · **What happens:** renew, gain, forget, provide, send, sight · **To what, where:** grief, waiting, melancholy, charms, bushels, feelings

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, charms), 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:pg7277:8:118
# text = At first the sight of them renewed her grief; but presently their charms so gained upon her that she forgot her melancholy in providing them with nursery-maids, cradle-rockers, and ladies-in-waiting, and in sending hither and thither for swings and dolls and tops, and bushels of the finest sweetmeats.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	renewed	renew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	charms	charm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	providing	provide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	rockers	rocker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
45	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
46	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	46	conj	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	swings	swing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	dolls	doll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	bushels	bushel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	61	amod	_	_
61	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **renew** | past | the sight of feelings | sight's grief |  | waiting |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grief=Patient |
| 2 | **gain** | past | feelings's charms |  |  |  |  | upon sight; presently *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **forget** | past | sight | sight's melancholy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **provide** | gerund | sight *not said here* | charms *= charm* |  |  |  | with nursery maids and cradle rockers | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with maid=Theme |
| 5 | **send** | gerund | the sight of feelings *not said here* | bushels of the finest sweetmeats |  |  |  | for swings and dolls and tops; hither *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | feelings *= feeling* |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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