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title: The walls were made of pale pink coral, worn smooth by the waters, a… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The walls were made of pale pink coral, worn smooth by the waters, and round the windows were rows of pearls; the great doors were standing open, and the whole troop floated into the chamber of audience, where the queen, who was half a woman after all, was seated on a throne made of a green and blue
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 40

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The walls were made of pale pink coral, worn smooth by the waters, and round the windows were rows of pearls; the great doors were standing open, and the whole troop floated into the chamber of audience, where the queen, who was half a woman after all, was seated on a throne made of a green and blue shell.

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**Who acts:** windows, great doors, whole troop, queen · **What happens:** make, wear, be, stand, float, seat · **To what, where:** walls, chamber, woman, queen, throne

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (windows, great doors, whole troop, 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:pg3027:25:40
# text = The walls were made of pale pink coral, worn smooth by the waters, and round the windows were rows of pearls; the great doors were standing open, and the whole troop floated into the chamber of audience, where the queen, who was half a woman after all, was seated on a throne made of a green and blue shell.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	round	round	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
30	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
43	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	56	advmod	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
49	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	51	det:predet	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
52	after	after	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl:relcl	_	_
57	on	on	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
60	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	59	acl	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
63	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	conj	_	_
66	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | the walls |  |  |  | of pale pink coral | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **wear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the waters; smooth *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the windows |  |  |  |  | round rows; of pearls | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | past · progressive | the great doors |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **float** | participle | the whole troop |  |  | the chamber of audience |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Destination |
| 6 | **is a** | past | the queen | half woman |  |  | after all |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **seat** | past · passive |  | the queen |  | a throne |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 8 | **make** | participle |  | a throne *not said here* |  |  |  | of a green shell | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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