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title: “Outside the city walls,” went on the emperor, “you will find a larg… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Outside the city walls,” went on the emperor, “you will find a large lake, and by its banks lie the richest meadows in my kingdom. Who acts: you, banks. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 83

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“Outside the city walls,” went on the emperor, “you will find a large lake, and by its banks lie the richest meadows in my kingdom.

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**Who acts:** you, banks · **What happens:** go, find, lie · **To what, where:** city walls, large lake, richest meadows, kingdom

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, banks), 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:pg2435:8:83
# text = “Outside the city walls,” went on the emperor, “you will find a large lake, and by its banks lie the richest meadows in my kingdom.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the city walls |  | on the emperor | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme outside wall=Location |
| 2 | **find** *in a quote* | future | you | a large lake |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Topic |
| 3 | **lie** *in a quote* | present | wall's banks | the richest meadows |  | my kingdom |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meadow=Theme |

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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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