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title: And he built his great white pillar far, far up into the clouds, as… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And he built his great white pillar far, far up into the clouds, as high as the nearest stars; but the other stars were higher still. Who acts: Simon, other stars. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 143

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And he built his great white pillar far, far up into the clouds, as high as the nearest stars; but the other stars were higher still.

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**Who acts:** Simon, other stars · **What happens:** build, be · **To what, where:** great white pillar, clouds

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon, other stars), 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:pg2435:4:143
# text = And he built his great white pillar far, far up into the clouds, as high as the nearest stars; but the other stars were higher still.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	up	up	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | Simon | Simon's great white pillar |  | the clouds |  | far *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent pillar=Material into cloud=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | the other stars |  |  |  | still | high *property* | tree rules |

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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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