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title: And as she lay there in her beauty a famous harper passed by the mil… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And as she lay there in her beauty a famous harper passed by the mill-dam of Binnorie, and saw her sweet pale face. Who acts: fringe. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 72

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And as she lay there in her beauty a famous harper passed by the mill-dam of Binnorie, and saw her sweet pale face.

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**Who acts:** fringe · **What happens:** lie, pass, see · **To what, where:** beauty, famous harper, sweet pale face

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fringe), 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:pg7439:13:72
# text = And as she lay there in her beauty a famous harper passed by the mill-dam of Binnorie, and saw her sweet pale face.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	harper	harper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
12	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	dam	dam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Binnorie	Binnorie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | fringe |  |  | fringe's beauty; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in beauty=Location |
| 2 | **pass** | participle |  | a famous harper *not said here* |  |  |  | by the mill dam of Binnorie | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by dam=Location |
| 3 | **see** | past | fringe *not said here* | fringe's sweet pale face |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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