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title: In a great Palace by the sea there once dwelt a very rich old lord,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In a great Palace by the sea there once dwelt a very rich old lord, who had neither wife nor children living, only one little granddaughter, whose face he had never seen in all her life. Who acts: rich old lord, wife, dog. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 87

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In a great Palace by the sea there once dwelt a very rich old lord, who had neither wife nor children living, only one little granddaughter, whose face he had never seen in all her life.

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**Who acts:** rich old lord, wife, dog · **What happens:** dwell, have, live, not see · **To what, where:** rich old lord, great Palace, wife, face, life

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich old lord, wife, dog), 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:pg14241:20:87
# text = In a great Palace by the sea there once dwelt a very rich old lord, who had neither wife nor children living, only one little granddaughter, whose face he had never seen in all her life.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
10	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc:preconj	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	granddaughter	granddaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past |  | a rich old lord |  | a great Palace |  | by the sea; once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme lord=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | a rich old lord | wife nor children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | wife nor children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | dog | one little granddaughter's face *not said here* |  | wife's life |  |  | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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