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title: When the banqueters saw such a young and beautiful cook they were su… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the banqueters saw such a young and beautiful cook they were surprised. Who acts: banqueters. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 57

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When the banqueters saw such a young and beautiful cook they were surprised.

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**Who acts:** banqueters · **What happens:** see, be · **To what, where:** young cook · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (banqueters), 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:pg7439:41:57
# text = When the banqueters saw such a young and beautiful cook they were surprised.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	banqueters	banqueter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	10	det:predet	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the banqueters | such young cook |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cook=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | banqueters *= banqueter* |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | 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:** «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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