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title: There, in the very place they had chosen, stood a beautiful house—do… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There, in the very place they had chosen, stood a beautiful house—doors and windows, and everything all complete! Who acts: words. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 56

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There, in the very place they had chosen, stood a beautiful house—doors and windows, and everything all complete!

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**Who acts:** words · **What happens:** choose, stand · **To what, where:** place, beautiful house

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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:pg3282:20:56
# text = There, in the very place they had chosen, stood a beautiful house—doors and windows, and everything all complete!
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past · perfect | words *= word* | the place *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | a beautiful house |  | the place; there |  | complete *obl* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in place=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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