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title: On three sides of the castle lay a lovely garden with masses of gay,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On three sides of the castle lay a lovely garden with masses of gay, sweet flowers, and velvet lawns all cool and shady, which pleased the eye of the princess. Who acts: three sides. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 32

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On three sides of the castle lay a lovely garden with masses of gay, sweet flowers, and velvet lawns all cool and shady, which pleased the eye of the princess.

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**Who acts:** three sides · **What happens:** lie · **To what, where:** lovely garden

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three sides), 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:pg3282:31:32
# text = On three sides of the castle lay a lovely garden with masses of gay, sweet flowers, and velvet lawns all cool and shady, which pleased the eye of the princess.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	gay	gay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	velvet	velvet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lawns	lawn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | three sides of the castle | a lovely garden |  |  |  | with masses of gay and sweet flowers | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location garden=Theme |

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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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