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title: And when the sultan woke he saw, in the distance, a palace built of… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the sultan woke he saw, in the distance, a palace built of soft blue marble, resting on slender pillars of pure gold. Who acts: sultan. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 91

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And when the sultan woke he saw, in the distance, a palace built of soft blue marble, resting on slender pillars of pure gold.

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**Who acts:** sultan · **What happens:** wake, see, build, rest · **To what, where:** palace, slender pillars

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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 (sultan), 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:pg3282:22:91
# text = And when the sultan woke he saw, in the distance, a palace built of soft blue marble, resting on slender pillars of pure gold.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | past | the sultan |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past | sultan |  |  |  |  | in the distance and a palace | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **build** | participle |  | a palace *not said here* |  |  |  | of soft blue marble | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **rest** | gerund | sultan *not said here* |  |  | slender pillars of pure gold |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pillar=Location |

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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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