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title: The brightest hung round the throne on which the queen sat, and whic… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The brightest hung round the throne on which the queen sat, and which stood above four steps of pure gold inlaid with great amethysts. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 6

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The brightest hung round the throne on which the queen sat, and which stood above four steps of pure gold inlaid with great amethysts.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** hang, sit, stand, inlay, step · **To what, where:** throne, pure gold

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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:pg2435:35:6
# text = The brightest hung round the throne on which the queen sat, and which stood above four steps of pure gold inlaid with great amethysts.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	above	above	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	inlaid	inlay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	amethysts	amethyst	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | participle |  |  |  | the throne |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round throne=Destination |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the queen |  |  | the throne |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |
| 3 | **stand** | past |  |  |  |  |  | above four steps of pure gold | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above step=Location |
| 4 | **inlay** | participle |  | pure gold *not said here* |  |  |  | with great amethysts | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with amethyst=Theme |
| 5 | **step** |  |  | pure gold |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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