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title: He went with her and into a palace which was like a house in Paradis… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He went with her and into a palace which was like a house in Paradise, and saw seated on the royal carpets of the throne a girl whose brilliance shamed the shining sun. He salaamed; she rose, took him by the hand and placed him near her. Who acts: nurse, girl. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 10

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He went with her and into a palace which was like a house in Paradise, and saw seated on the royal carpets of the throne a girl whose brilliance shamed the shining sun. He salaamed; she rose, took him by the hand and placed him near her.

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**Who acts:** nurse, girl · **What happens:** go, be, see, seat, shame, shine · **To what, where:** palace, royal carpets, shining sun., nurse

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse, girl), 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:pg3282:3:10
# text = He went with her and into a palace which was like a house in Paradise, and saw seated on the royal carpets of the throne a girl whose brilliance shamed the shining sun. He salaamed; she rose, took him by the hand and placed him near her.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Paradise	Paradise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	carpets	carpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	brilliance	brilliance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	shamed	shame	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	amod	_	_
34	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	salaamed	salaam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	near	near	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | nurse |  |  |  |  | with girl | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | a palace |  | like a house; in Paradise | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | nurse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **seat** | participle | nurse *not said here* |  |  | the royal carpets of the throne |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 5 | **shame** | past | a girl | the shining sun. |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sun.=Experiencer |
| 6 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **salaam** | past | nurse | the shining sun. *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun.=Topic |
| 8 | **rise** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **take** | past | girl *not said here* |  | nurse |  |  | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 10 | **place** | past | girl *not said here* | nurse |  |  |  | near girl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme near she=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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