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title: On a throne, jewelled and overspread with silken stuffs, sat a girl… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On a throne, jewelled and overspread with silken stuffs, sat a girl the splendour of whose beauty lighted up the place, and whose ambergris and attar perfumed the whole air. Who acts: beauty, ambergris. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, with its depen
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 42

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On a throne, jewelled and overspread with silken stuffs, sat a girl the splendour of whose beauty lighted up the place, and whose ambergris and attar perfumed the whole air.

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**Who acts:** beauty, ambergris · **What happens:** jewell, overspread, sit, light up, perfume · **To what, where:** throne, girl, place, whole air

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauty, ambergris), 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:pg3282:2:42
# text = On a throne, jewelled and overspread with silken stuffs, sat a girl the splendour of whose beauty lighted up the place, and whose ambergris and attar perfumed the whole air.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	jewelled	jewell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	overspread	overspread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	ambergris	ambergris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	attar	attar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	perfumed	perfume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jewell** | participle |  | a throne *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **overspread** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with silken stuffs | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | past |  | a girl |  | a throne |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme splendour=Destination |
| 4 | **light up** | participle | the splendour of the splendour of beauty's beauty's beauty *not said here* | the place |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Product |
| 5 | **perfume** | past | ambergris and attar | the whole air |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent air=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 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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