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description: The man led him through several streets into a large square, one side of which was occupied by a splendid building that seemed borne up on slender pillars of soft green marble. Who acts: man, splendid building. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, w
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 10

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The man led him through several streets into a large square, one side of which was occupied by a splendid building that seemed borne up on slender pillars of soft green marble.

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**Who acts:** man, splendid building · **What happens:** lead, occupy, seem, bear up · **To what, where:** city, several streets, splendid building, slender pillars

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, splendid building), 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:pg2435:19:10
# text = The man led him through several streets into a large square, one side of which was occupied by a splendid building that seemed borne up on slender pillars of soft green marble.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the man | city |  | several streets |  | into a large square and one side | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme through street=Destination |
| 2 | **occupy** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of one side; by a splendid building | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **seem** | past | a splendid building |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bear up** | participle |  | a splendid building *not said here* |  | slender pillars of soft green marble |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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