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title: One day, as he wandered about absorbed in melancholy reflections, he… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 145

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One day, as he wandered about absorbed in melancholy reflections, he heard sudden shouts and exclamations of amazement, and if he had taken the trouble to look up he could not have helped being as astonished as everyone else, for through the air a chariot of crystal was slowly approaching which glittered in the sunshine.

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**Who acts:** Mirliflor, chariot · **What happens:** wander, absorb, hear, shout, take, look up · **To what, where:** One day, melancholy reflections, exclamations, trouble, air, sunshine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mirliflor, chariot), 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:pg7277:8:145
# text = One day, as he wandered about absorbed in melancholy reflections, he heard sudden shouts and exclamations of amazement, and if he had taken the trouble to look up he could not have helped being as astonished as everyone else, for through the air a chariot of crystal was slowly approaching which glittered in the sunshine.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	absorbed	absorb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	reflections	reflection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	exclamations	exclamation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
36	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
37	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	cop	_	_
38	as	as	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	39	obl	_	_
42	else	else	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
44	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
45	through	through	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
55	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
56	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	ccomp	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | Mirliflor | One day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme day=Trajectory |
| 2 | **absorb** | participle | Mirliflor *not said here* |  |  | melancholy reflections |  | about *property* | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal |
| 3 | **hear** | past | Mirliflor |  |  |  | day |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | present |  | exclamations of amazement |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exclamation=Topic |
| 5 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Mirliflor | the trouble |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme |
| 6 | **look up** | to-infinitive | Mirliflor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **not** **help** | could · perfect | Mirliflor |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as everyone; astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **approach** | past · progressive | a chariot of crystal |  |  | the air |  | slowly *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **glitter** | past |  |  |  | the sunshine |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location |
| 11 | **exclaim** |  |  | amazement |  |  |  |  | nom exclamation «communication 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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