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title: There were the endless treasure chambers to be gone through, and the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There were the endless treasure chambers to be gone through, and the hosts of gnomes to be kept to their tasks. Who acts: endless treasure chambers, hosts. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 93

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There were the endless treasure chambers to be gone through, and the hosts of gnomes to be kept to their tasks.

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**Who acts:** endless treasure chambers, hosts · **What happens:** be, go through, keep, task

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (endless treasure chambers, hosts), 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:pg3282:30:93
# text = There were the endless treasure chambers to be gone through, and the hosts of gnomes to be kept to their tasks.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	through	through	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	gnomes	gnome	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | the endless treasure chambers |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go through** | to-infinitive · passive | the endless treasure chambers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive · passive | the endless treasure chambers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to hosts's tasks | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **task** |  | hosts *= host* |  |  |  |  |  | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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