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title: It was taken to the palace and tied at the foot of the Lady Jamila’s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was taken to the palace and tied at the foot of the Lady Jamila’s raised seat, but she ordered a longer cord to be brought so that it might be able to jump up beside her. Who acts: girl, it. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tre
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 57

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It was taken to the palace and tied at the foot of the Lady Jamila’s raised seat, but she ordered a longer cord to be brought so that it might be able to jump up beside her.

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**Who acts:** girl, it · **What happens:** take, tie, raise, order, bring, be · **To what, where:** It, palace, foot, longer cord

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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 (girl, it), 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:pg3282:3:57
# text = It was taken to the palace and tied at the foot of the Lady Jamila’s raised seat, but she ordered a longer cord to be brought so that it might be able to jump up beside her.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Jamila	Jamila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	ccomp	_	_
29	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	34	mark	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
34	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · passive |  | It |  | the palace |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to palace=Destination |
| 2 | **tie** | participle |  |  |  | the foot of the Lady Jamila's raised seat |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **raise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **order** | past | girl | a longer cord |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cord=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» |
| 6 | **is** | might | it |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **jump up** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | beside girl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside she=Trajectory |

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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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