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title: But when he reached the little house where he lived, he stood still… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when he reached the little house where he lived, he stood still with amazement, for instead of his wooden hut was a stately palace filled with splendid furniture, and most splendid of all was the bed, in every respect like the one he had envied. Who acts: cutter. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 4

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But when he reached the little house where he lived, he stood still with amazement, for instead of his wooden hut was a stately palace filled with splendid furniture, and most splendid of all was the bed, in every respect like the one he had envied.

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**Who acts:** cutter · **What happens:** reach, live, stand, be, fill, envy · **To what, where:** little house, respect, stately palace, one

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cutter), 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:pg2435:20:4
# text = But when he reached the little house where he lived, he stood still with amazement, for instead of his wooden hut was a stately palace filled with splendid furniture, and most splendid of all was the bed, in every respect like the one he had envied.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
19	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	23	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
28	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	35	advmod	_	_
35	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	det	_	_
44	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
45	like	like	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	envied	envy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | cutter | the little house |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | cutter |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | cutter |  |  | every respect like the one | still | with amazement | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in respect=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for a stately palace; instead cutter's wooden hut | tree rules |
| 5 | **fill** | participle |  | a stately palace *not said here* |  |  |  | with splendid furniture | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with furniture=Instrument |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of all bed | tree rules |
| 7 | **envy** | past · perfect | cutter | the one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=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:** «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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