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title: But the house was not like other houses, for the walls of every room… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the house was not like other houses, for the walls of every room were hung so thick with arms that you could not see the boards. Who acts: house, you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 122

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But the house was not like other houses, for the walls of every room were hung so thick with arms that you could not see the boards.

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**Who acts:** house, you · **What happens:** not be, hang, not see · **To what, where:** other houses, arms

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, you), 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:pg3027:15:122
# text = But the house was not like other houses, for the walls of every room were hung so thick with arms that you could not see the boards.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	boards	board	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the house |  |  |  |  | like other houses and the walls of every room | tree rules |
| 2 | **hang** | past · passive |  | other houses and the walls of every room |  |  |  | thick *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **see** | could | you | arms |  |  |  |  | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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