--- title: He found he was in a great hall with three chairs in it--one big, on… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He found he was in a great hall with three chairs in it--one big, one middling, and one little chair; and he thought he would like to sit down and rest and look about him; so he sat down on the big chair. Who acts: Scrapefoot, one. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scrapefoot, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:23:25 # text = He found he was in a great hall with three chairs in it--one big, one middling, and one little chair; and he thought he would like to sit down and rest and look about him; so he sat down on the big chair. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 chairs chair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 -- -- PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nsubj _ _ 16 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 middling middling NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 down down ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 39 about about ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 so so ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 45 down down ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 on on ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | Scrapefoot | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | Scrapefoot | | | a great hall and big one middling | | with three chairs in nose | tree rules | | 3 | **middling** | | one | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Scrapefoot | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **like** | would | Scrapefoot | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **sit down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Scrapefoot *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **rest** | infinitive | Scrapefoot *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **look** | infinitive | Scrapefoot *not said here* | | | | | about Scrapefoot | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | | 9 | **sit down** | past | Scrapefoot | | | the big chair | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/23/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/23/26/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/23/)