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title: In forty days he must build me a palace, in which every room shall b… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In forty days he must build me a palace, in which every room shall be filled with different furniture from a different country, and each more magnificent than any room that ever was seen.” Who acts: son. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, with its dep
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 80

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In forty days he must build me a palace, in which every room shall be filled with different furniture from a different country, and each more magnificent than any room that ever was seen.”

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** build, fill, see · **To what, where:** palace, me, room

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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:pg3282:22:80
# text = In forty days he must build me a palace, in which every room shall be filled with different furniture from a different country, and each more magnificent than any room that ever was seen.”
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nsubj	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
34	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	36	advmod	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | must | son | a palace | me |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary palace=Product |
| 2 | **fill** | shall · passive |  | every room |  |  |  | with different furniture from a different country | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with furniture=Instrument |
| 3 | **see** | past · passive |  | any room |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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