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title: Some stationed themselves round the floating palace, some sat by the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some stationed themselves round the floating palace, some sat by the door, while the smallest and lightest perched themselves on the roof. Who acts: Some. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 7

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Some stationed themselves round the floating palace, some sat by the door, while the smallest and lightest perched themselves on the roof.

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**Who acts:** Some · **What happens:** station, float, sit, perch · **To what, where:** dominions, floating palace, smallest, roof

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some), 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:pg3027:29:7
# text = Some stationed themselves round the floating palace, some sat by the door, while the smallest and lightest perched themselves on the roof.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stationed	station	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	lightest	light	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	conj	_	_
20	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
21	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **station** | past | Some | dominions *= dominion* |  |  |  | round the floating palace | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 2 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | participle | some | the floating palace *not said here* |  |  |  | by the door | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme by door=Location |
| 4 | **perch** | participle · passive |  | smallest |  | the roof |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme themselves=Destination |

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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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