--- title: For four or five years the baby lived in the castle alone with his n… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: For four or five years the baby lived in the castle alone with his nurses, taking his airings on the broad terraces, which were surrounded by walls, with a moat beneath them, and only a drawbridge to connect them with the outer world. Who acts: baby, walls. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby, walls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:25:1 # text = For four or five years the baby lived in the castle alone with his nurses, taking his airings on the broad terraces, which were surrounded by walls, with a moat beneath them, and only a drawbridge to connect them with the outer world. 1 For for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 alone alone ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 nurses nurse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 airings airing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 terraces terrace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 moat moat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 34 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 only only ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 drawbridge drawbridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 connect connect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 acl _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | the baby | a drawbridge | | the castle with baby's nurses | year | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | | 2 | **take** | gerund | the baby *not said here* | baby's airings | | the broad terraces | | with a moat beneath walls | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent airing=Theme on terrace=Destination | | 3 | **surround** | past · passive | walls | the broad terraces | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | | 4 | **connect** | to-infinitive | the baby *not said here* | airings *= airing* | | | | with the outer world | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient with world=Co-Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/24/123/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/25/2/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/25/)