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title: They went together into the Castle of Clashing Swords and found it a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They went together into the Castle of Clashing Swords and found it adorned and fitted in princely fashion. Who acts: lion, Castle. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 55

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They went together into the Castle of Clashing Swords and found it adorned and fitted in princely fashion.

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**Who acts:** lion, Castle · **What happens:** go together, clash, find, adorn, fit · **To what, where:** Castle, Swords, princely fashion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, Castle), 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:pg3282:4:55
# text = They went together into the Castle of Clashing Swords and found it adorned and fitted in princely fashion.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	Clashing	clash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	Swords	Sword	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	princely	princely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **go together** | past | lion |  |  | the Castle |  | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **clash** | gerund | the Castle *not said here* | Swords |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sword=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | lion *not said here* | castle |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **adorn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fit** | participle |  |  |  | princely fashion |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in fashion=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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