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title: A towering citadel whose foot kept firm the wrinkled earth, and whos… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A towering citadel whose foot kept firm the wrinkled earth, and whose battlements touched the blue heaven. Who acts: towering citadel, battlements. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 92

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A towering citadel whose foot kept firm the wrinkled earth, and whose battlements touched the blue heaven.

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**Who acts:** towering citadel, battlements · **What happens:** tower, keep, wrinkle, touch · **To what, where:** blue heaven

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (towering citadel, battlements), 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:pg3282:1:92
# text = A towering citadel whose foot kept firm the wrinkled earth, and whose battlements touched the blue heaven.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	towering	tower	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	citadel	citadel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	battlements	battlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tower** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | past | a towering citadel |  |  |  |  | firm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wrinkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **touch** | past | battlements | the blue heaven |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heaven=Co-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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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